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MONTGOMERY'S 

TIPPECANOE ALMANAC, 

FOR THE YEAR 

18 4 1. 




CONTAIIflNO 

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF GENERAL WILLIAM 

HENRY HARRISON; WITH TESTIMONIALS OF HIS CONDUCT AND 

CHARACTER BY OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT 

UNDER HIM AND WITH HIM, THE BATTLES OF 

THEIR COUNTRY, AT TIPPECANOE, FORT 

MEIGS, AND THE THAMES. 

ALSO, 

EXTRACTS FROM THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS OP THE YEARS 1813— 1S15, IN RELATION 

TO THOSE BRILLIANT VICTORIES; TOGETHER WITH SUNDRY 

INTERESTING ANECDOTES AND PATRIOTIC SONGS. 



3|fttIaiJirlphfa: 



M'CARTY & DAVIS ; THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT & CO. ; MARSHALL, WILLIAMS &. BUTLER i 

G. W. MENTZ &. SON; HOGAN & THOMPSON; GRIGG & ELLIOTT; KAY &: BROTHER. 

Stereotyped by L. Johnson. 



THE EDITOR'S ADDRESS 

TO ALL TRUE REPUBLICANS WHO CONSIDER THE VOICE OF PATRIOTISM MORE OBLIGA- 
^ fl^ » ^ Sk TORY THAN THE DICTATION OF PARTV. 

Wf\ fS fefit^ If ■ \ 

The design of this publication was suggested by an original, firm, and efficient supporter of 
the administration of General Jackson, but now. an active and enthusiastic advocate of the election 
of General Harrison ; Because, being familiarly acquainted with the history of the eventful life 
of that illustrious individual, he, knows him to be brave, Jionest, and true ; Because, relying 
upon contemporaneous and recorded evidence, in preference to the base and sordid discolourings 
of ihe political paint brush, lie has the fullest confidence in his intellectual and statesmanlike 
qualifications — his patriotic and self-sacrificing devotion to his country, and his incorruptible 
integrity; Becai-se, being a workingman, he feels the sad effects of the paralysis which an 
unholy combination of selfish and corrupt pnliticians have inflicted upon the industrious and 
productive classes of the community ; Becaitse, he is abundantly convinced that the blight, 
and the mildew, and the demoralization which now overshadow the land, have been occasioned 
by those who are determined to sacrifice this abused and insulted people at the shrine of power, 
to enable the feeders at the public crib still to riot on the " spoik" of oflice, to peculate on the 
people's treasury, and to "go unwhipt of justice;" and Because, being a Jersey Blue, he is 
disgusted and alarmed, that the star of one of the old thirteen states, whose soil has been 
drenched with the blood of our Revolutionary fathers, should have been stricken from the na- 
tional constellation by the hand of unholy and lawless power. 

It was the original intention of the editor of this work to intersperse its pages with a larger 
amount of documentary evidence, but the necessity for such a course appeared to be superseded 
by the recent pubUcation of the " Tippecanoe Text-Book,'^ compiled by William Ogden Niles, Esq., 
a most valuable collection of recorded testimony, extracted chiefly from Niles's Register, which is 
admitted as legal evidence in our courts of justice, and which will unquestionably prove entirely 
satisfactory to all who are not wilfully blind, and whose vocation it is to employ the tarnished wea- 
pons oi ingratitude and falsehood, in preference to the burnished blades of justice and of truth. 

For an ample refutation of the base slanders of a corrupt and venal press, and of the gross 
defamation perpetrated by the cowardly assassins who are endeavouring to stab a reputation 
which should be cherished by every patriotic heart, as shedding a bright lustre on our country's 
history, the attention of the reader is particularly called to " McAffee's History of the late War," 
published in 1816; to " Dawson's Life of Harrison," which is replete with documentary evi- 
dence ; to John M. Niles's (the present Postmaster-general) biography of Gen. Harrison ; and 
to "Hall's Life of Harrison," all published long before "the rock of the nation's sal- 
vation" was suggested as a candidate for the presidency ; all traced by the impartial pens of 
the respective historians, all of whom were members of the former Jackson parly. 

The reader is also referred to the admirably written biographies of General Harrison by J. R. 
Jackson, Esq., and J. Washington Tyson, Esq,, of Philadelphia, to that by S. J. Burr, Esq., of 
New York, to one by J. Hildreth, Esq., of Boston, and to a more recent publication at Cincin- 
nati, by Colonel C. S. Todd and B. Drake, Esq., the former of whom was one of General 
Harrison's aides-de-camp, during the last war, and, of course, intimately acquainted with him 
as a man and as a soldier. 

In the compilation of this almanac, the editor has been surrounded by such an accumulation 
of interesting and authentic matter, illustrative of the undaunted bravery, the consummate skill, 
the high intellectual and statesmanlike quaUfications, the unsullied integrity, the noble humanity 
in peace and in war, the unbought plaudits of a grateful nation towards " the second Washing- 
ton," as he was characterized by the Democracy of that day, and the ardent patriotism and self- 
devotion of the war-worn patriot, whom the people have selected as their leader to fight the battles 
of LIBERTY against the mercenary troops of corruption, tyranny, and misrule, that a difficulty 
has occurred in making the selection ; but should the work receive that encouragement, to which 
the public-spirited publishers conceive it to be entitled, desiring no other remuneration for the 
heavy expenditures incurred, than the expuMon from abused power of the corrupt and imbecile 
rulers who have prostrated the energies of the country, it will afford them much gratification so 
far to increase the size of the subsequent editions, as to admit of the publication of a vast addi- 
tional amount of interesting matter, which has been necessarily excluded. Our limited space 
admonishes us to close our remarks. In conclusion, then, we call upon all sincere Republicans, 
whether native or adopted, from whatever clime they may have arrived upon our shores in search 
of a safe asylum from the oppressions of the old world, to come up to the rescue of our bleed- 
ing and power-ridden country. We conjure them by the blood of our Revolutionary fathers, 
by the sacred love of liberty which our adopted fellow-citizens have brought from the despotisms 
of Europe, to vindicate a violated Constitution — to teach the bloated rulers of an oppressed people 
the terrors of the ballrd box, when freemen are roused by injury and insult — to bring back the 
government to the halcyon days of the Republic, to demonstrate to the world that the people 
.-ire fit for self-government, and that they are resolved that our fair land shall ever remain " The 
land of the Free and the home of the Brave," 



NOTES TO THE READER. 



First. — The calculations of this Almanac are 
made to mean solar time chiefly — excepting the 
sun's declination, and rising and setting of the 
sun — which are calculated to apparent time, to 
which add the equation in table page 4, when 
the clock is fast, and subtract when slow, for 
mean or clock time, as the table directs. 

Second. — The time of high water at Philadel- 
phia, is so computed as to serve either for morn- 
ing or evening; exact enough for common use; 
the morning flood being about 12 minutes earlier 
than the time in the tide column, and that of the 
evening as much later. 

Third. — The sun's declination is fitted to the 
meridian of Philadelphia, for the noon of each 
day in the year. 

Fourth. — As the days end at midnight, the 
rising, setting, and southing of the moon, when 
after that time, is found against the succeeding 
day, so on the night of (or following) the 2d of 
the first month, (January,) the moon sets at 2 h. 
59 m. after midnight, viz. : in the morning of the 
3d, not at 1 h. 46 m. which is the time of her 
setting the preceding morning. 

Fifth. — The rising, setting, or southing of a 
star, may be carried several days backward, by 
adding, or forward by subtracting, four minutes 



per daj'. For instance, on the 9th of the first 
month, (January,) Sirius is south at 11 h. 12 m. 
adding 12 minutes for three days sooner, we 
have 11 h. 24 m. for the southing on the 6th, 
and deducting 8 m. for two days later, leaves 
11 h. 4 m. for that on the 11th of the same 
month. 

Sixth. — The time of Alioth's passing over the 
meridian, or when a plumb line apparently cuts 
botli the pole star and Alioth, is given for the 
first six months above the pole, and for the last 
six months below it, for 5 days in every month, 
and may be readily known for any day by the pre- 
ceding note. These two stars will be visibly co- 
incident with a level east and west line at 5 h. 
59 m. before and after Aliolh passes the meri- 
dian — but for common nse say G hours. Thus we 
may regulate timepieces to a minute, or tell the 
time without them. The Pole Star is on the 
meridian 12 minutes later than Alioth; when a 
true meridian line may be drawn hy it, and the 
magnetic variation thereby determined. 

Alioth is the first star in the tail of the great 
Bear, viz. : that next to the square, or it is the 
third star of the seven, commonly called the 
wagon or plough, counting towards those two of 
them which are denominated the pointers. 



ECLIPSES OF THE SUN AND MOON. 



fn the year 1841 there will be four eclipses 
of the sun, and two of the moon. 

1st. Of the sun, on the 22d day of the first 
month, (January,) at 12 h. 14 m. afternoon — in- 
visible at Philadelphia. This eclipse will only 
be visible in a small poitiou of the southern 
ocean. 

2d. Of the moon, on the 5th day of the second 
month, (February,) at 9 h. 9 m. afternoon — 
visible and total at Philadelphia — as follows, 
viz.: — 

h. m. 
First contact with penumbra at 6 23 

First contact with dark shadow 7 19 

First total immersion in dark shadow 8 16j. 
Middle of eclipse 9 5} 

Last total immersion in dark shadow 9 54 
Last contact with dark shadow 10 51j 

Last contact with penumbra 11 48 _j 

Magnitude of the eclipse about 20^ digits, on 
the southern limb. 

3d. Of the sun, on the 21st day of the second 
month, (February,) at 7 h. 14 m. morning — invi- 
sible at Philadelphia. This eclipse will be visi- 
ble in the North Atlantic, Iceland, and East 
Greenland. 



4th. Of the sun, on the 18th day of the se- 
venth month, (July,) at 9 h. 24 m. morning- 
invisible at Philadelphia. This eclipse will be 
visible in BaflSn's Bay, Greenland, Iceland, Rus- 
sia in Europe, Prussia, the Northern Oceau, 
Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Finland, Italy, Ger- 
many, Scotland, and the North of France. 

5th. Of the moon, on the second day of the 
eighth month, (August,) at 5 h. morning — partly 
visible at Philadelphia — as follows, viz. : 

h. m. 
First contact with penumbra at 1 

First contact with dark shadow 3 

First total immersion in dark shadow 4 
Middle of eclipse 6 

The moon sets eclipsed 5 

Magnitude of the eclipse about 20 digits, oa 
the southern limb. 

6th. Of the sun, on the 16th day of the eighth 
month, (August,) at 4 h. 31 m. afternoon — invi- 
sible at Philadelphia. This eclipse will be visi- 
ble in the South Pacific Ocean, and part of the 
Southern Ocean. 

Venus ($) will be the evening star until the 
14th day of the fifth month, (May.) Then morn- 
ing star the remainder of the year. 




CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES. 



Dominical letter, - - - 
Lunar cycle, or golden number, 
Epact, - - - - _ 



C. I Solar cycle, - 
18 Roman indiction, 
7 Julian period. 



2 

14 

- 6354 



March, 
Juue, 



EMBER DAYS, 

3, 5 and 6 I September, 
2, 4 and 5 1 December, 



15, 17 and IS 
15, 17 and IS 
3 



TIPPECANOE ALMANAC. 

MOVEABLE FEASTS. 



Septuagesima Sunday, - 
Quing, or Shrove Sunday, 
Ash Wed. or 1st day of Lent, ■ 
Mid-Lent Sunday, 
Palm Sunday, 
Easter Sunday, 



The year 1S41, after the birth of Christ, is I The 6554th year of the Julian period. 

The 2616th year of the Olympiads, or I The 25S8th Nabonassarian year. 

The 1st year of the 654th Olympiad, beginning] The 5600th year of the Jews. 

in July. I The 5844th year of the world, or Anno Mundi. 



Feb. 7 


Low Sunday, 


. 


April ij 8 


Feb. 21 


Rogation Sunday, - 


- 


May \6 


Feb. 24 


A.SC. day, or Holy Thurs. 


- 


May \0 


March 21 


Whit-Sunday, 


- 


May Z) 


April 4 


Trinity Sunday, - 


- 


June ^ 


April 11 


Advent Sunday, - 


• 


Nov. 2t 



A Table of the equation of time, for regulating clocks and watches for the year 1841. 
Note. — Fast clock, too fast, that is, your clock to be set right, must be so much faster than the 
sun dial ; slow clock, too slow, that is your clock must be so much slower than the sun dial. 



Days. 



1 

3 

5 

7 

9 

11 

13 

15 

17 

19 

21 

23 

25 

27 

29 

31 



January, 
min. sec. 



4 fast 4 

5 

5 54 

6 47 

7 37 

8 35 

9 10 

9 54 

10 34 

11 12 

11 46 

12 18 

12... ..46 

13 11 

13 33 

13 52 



February, 
min. sec. 



14 fast 

14 13 

14 23 

14 30 

14 34 

14 34 

14 32 

14 26 

14 18 

14 7 

13 54 

13 37 

13 19 

12 58 



March, 
min. sec. 



12 fast 34 

12 9 

11 42 

11 13 

10 42 

10 11 

9 37 

9 3 

8 28 

7 53 

7 17 

6 40 

6 3 

5 26 

4 49 

4 12 



April, 
min. sec. 



3 fast 54 

3 18 

2 42 

2 7 

1 33 

1 

28 

slow 2 

31 

59 

1 24 

1 48 

2 16 

2 30 

2 48 



May. 
min. sec. 



3 slow 5 

3 19 

3 31 

3 40 

3 48 

3 53 

3 55 

3 55 

3 53 

3 49 

3 42 

3 34 

3 23 

3 10 

2 55 

2 39 



June, 
min. sec. 



2 slow 31 

2 12 

1 52 

1 31 

1 8 

44 

20 

fast 5 

31 

.57 

1 23 

1 49 

2 15 

2 40 

3 4 



Days 



1 

3 

5 

7 

9 

11 

13 

15 

17 

19 

21 

23 

25 

27 

29 

31 



July, 
min. sec. 



3 fast 28 

3 .50 

4 11 

4 31 

4 50 

5 6 

5 22 

5 35 

5 46 

5 56 

6 3 

6 7 

6 10 

6 10 

6 7 

6 2 



August, 
min. sec. 



5 fast 59 


5.. 


..50 


5... 


..39 


5.. 


..26 


5.. 


..11 


4.. 


..53 


4.. 


..33 


4.. 


..12 


3.. 


..46 


3.. 


..20 


2.. 


..52 


2.. 


..22 


1.. 


..50 


1.. 


..16 


0.. 


..41 


0.. 


.. 5 




November. | 


mm. 


sec. 1 


16 slow 17 1 


16.. 


..18 


16.. 


..15 


16.. 


.. 9 


15.. 


..59 


15.. 


..46 


15.. 


..30 


15.. 


..10 


14.. 


..47 


14.. 


..20 


13.. 


..50 


13.. 


..18 


12.. 


...42 


12.. 


.. 3 


11.. 


...22 







December, 
min. sec. 



10 slow 37 

9 50 

9 1 

8 10 

7 16 

6 21 

5 24 

4 26 

3 27 

2 27 

1 27 

27 

fast 33 

1 32 

2 31 

3 28 



How to set a clock or watch by this table. For example ; January 1st, I find by looking into 
the talile, that the clock to be right must be 4 minutes 4 seconds faster thnn the sun dial. There- 
fore, I set her so much faster, and so of the rest. Twelve o'clock is the best time to set a clock 
or watch by a sun dial. 

Note.- -A run dial shows solar or apparent time, but a clock, &c. should be set to equal or 
mean tune, as th^j table directs. 



18^.1.] 



FIRST MONTH— JANUARY. 



[31 Days. 



O Full Moon 7 
^ Last Quarter 14 
Q New Moon 23 
J) First Quarter 30 



MOO 

10 

12 

12 

1 



N'S PHASE 

15 Morning 

36 Afternoon 

14 Afternoon 

8 Morning 



S. 



.Cold high wind. 
.Snow, or rain. 
. Snow, or rain. 
. Fair and frosty. 



s 


i 




Sun ! Sun O's 


D's 


Moon 


Moon H. W. 


REMARKS. 


rises, sets. dec. S. 


place. 


sets. 


south. Philada. 


Q 


Q 

6 




H. M. H. M. ° ' 




M. H. 


H. M. H. M. 


1 


Circum. O in perigee 


7 23 4 37|22 59 


t20 


12 371 6 37 8 25 


2 


7 


Alioth on Mer. 5 55. 


7 23'4 37 22 54 


« 4 


146 7 29 9 17 


3 


C 


1st. S. of N.Yr.— 3 's age I Id. 


7 23 


4 37,22 48 


18 


2 59 8 2510 13 


4 


2 


B's eye south 9 23. 


7 22 


4 38 22 42 


n 2 


4 16 


92811 16 


5 


3 


J'slat 4d. N. 


7 22 


4 38'22 35 


17 


5 31 10 3412 22 


6 


4 


Epiphany — ([ perigee. 


721 


4 39 22 28 


93 3 


6 38114112 46 


7 


5 


? sets 8 4. 


721 


4 39 22 20 


18 


RISES 


morn: 1 53 


8 


6 


^ rises 12 19, 


7 20 


4 4022 12 


SI 3 


6 19 


12 44' 2 5Q 


9 


7 


Sirius south 1112. 


7 20 


4 40 22 4 


18 


7 37 


1 45 3 57 


10 


C 


1st Sun. af. Epiph. J Q 


7 19 


4 4121 55 


^i 3 


8 52 


2 38; 4 50 


11 


2 


Alioth on Mer. 5 16. 


7 18 


4 42|2145 


17 


10 3 


3 28, 5 40 


12 


>-> 


P) rises 5 42. 


7 18 


4 42i21 36 


^ 


11 11 


4 15 6 27 


13 


4 


4 rises 4 23. 


717 


4 432125 


14 


MORN 


5 0, 7 12 


14 


5 


D'sage22d. Jc^C 


7 16 


4 44 21 15 


2Q 


12 17 


5 45: 7 57 


lo 


6 


7 :)f' s south 7 47. 


7 15 


4 45 21 4 


ni 9 


122 


6 30 8 42 


16 


7 


3 runs low. 


7 15 


4 45 20 52 


21 


2 25 


7 16: 9 28 


17 


C 


2d Sun. aft. Epiph 4 c^ C 


7 14 


4 46 20 41 


Z 3 


3 28 


8 510 17 


18 





Spica n^ rises 1 1 47. 


7 13 


4 47 20 28 


15 


4 27 


8 5511 7 


19 


3 


C apogee Jp ,^ C 


7 12 


4 4820 16 


27 


521 


9 4611 58 


20 


4 


O enter CK" 


711 


4 4920 3 


>? 9 


6 8 


10 3612 24 


21 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 4 34. 


711 


4 4919 49 


21 


6 48 


1126; 1 14 


22 


6 


O eclipsed invis. 


7 10 


4 5019 36 


^ 3 


SETS. 


AF.UI 2 2 


23 


7 


Vincent. 


7 9,4 5119 22 


15 


6 14 


12 59 2 47 


24 


C 


3d Sun. aft. Epiph. ? c$ >Ji 


7 8 4 52,19 7 


27 


7 16 


142 3 30 


25 




St. Paul's conv. 


7 7)4 53,18 52 


X 9 


8 19 


2 24 4 12 


2Q 


3 


D'slat. 3d. N. ?c^ C 


7 6 4 5418 37 


21 


9 21 


3 6 454 


21 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 4 9. 


7 5 4 55 18 22 


T 4 


10 26 


3 48 5 36 


28 


5 


Day 9 h. 52 m. long. 


7 4 4 56,18 6 


17 


11 34 


4 34 6 22 


29 


6 


Arcturus rises 10 6. 


7 3 4 5717 50 


8 


MORN 


5 22 7 10 


30 


7 


3) runs high. 


7 2;4 5817 34 


14 


12 44 


6 14' 8 2 


31 


C 


4th S. aft. Epiph. ]) 's age 9 d. 


7 1 


4 59,17 17 


27 


153 


i 7 12; 9 



The editor of the Louisville Journal has promised, if we will carry New York, to charter a 
thunder-rloud to let off its artillery in honour of the glorious event. Let him get his thunder- 
cloud rcatly. — Syracuse (N. Y.) Gaz. 

'Tis all ready, sir. We have got it chained to the peak, of one of the Silver Creek knobs 
across the river. It occasionally gets impatient and roars like a mad bull fastened to a post, but 
we shall keep it safe until we hear from New Fork, and then perchance let it loose and hid it 
send forth such thunders as the affrighted Van Burenites will mistake for " the peals of the last 
trumpet." 



]\Ir. Clay is undoubtedly a sharp politician. — Globe. 

Ay, sir — he may be a sharp politician, but you are a sharper. 



1841.] 


SECOND MONTH— FEBRUARY. 


[2S 


Days. 


MOON'S PHASES. 


Full Moon 5 d. 9 h. 


9 m. Afternoon . . . Perhaps rain, or snow. 


C Last Quarter 13 6 


25 Morning. .. .Stormy. 


Q New Moon 21 7 


14 Morning Stormy. \ 

16 Afternoon. . .Snow, or rain. 


;]) First Quarter '28 1 


.^ 


!^ 




Sun Sun 


O's 


D's 


Moon 


Moon 


H. w. 


f^ 


REMARKS. 


rises. 1 sets. 


dec. S. 


place. 


sets. 


south. 


Philada. 


a 


d 
2 


? sets 8 56. 


H. M. H. M. 


' 




H. M. 


H. M. 


H. M. 


1 


6 59 5 1 


17 


nl2 


311 


8 14 


10 2 


2 


3 


])'s lat. 40 N. 


6 58 5 2 


16 43 


^^ 


4 19 


919 


11 7 


3 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 3 39. 


6 57 5 3 


1625 


E5ll 


5 19 


10 23 


12 11 


4 


5 


(J perigee — day increased 58 m. 


6 56 5 4 


16 7 


2^ 


6 8 


1125 


12 35 


5 


6 


5) eclipsed, vis. — ^'s sup. (j © 


6 55 


5 5 


15 49 


Sill 


RISES 


MORN 


1 37 


6 


7 


B.'s eye south 7 5. 


6 54 


5 6 


15 30 


26 


^'^b 


12 21 


2 33 


7 


C 


Septuag. S. — J)'s age 16 d. 


6 53 


5 7 


1511 


.;;10 


7 38 


1 14 


3 26 


8 


2 


^ rises 11 15. 


6 51 


5 9 


14 52 


'^b 


8 50 


2 3 


4 15 


9 


3 


Day 10 h. 20 m. long. 


6 50 


5 10 


14 33 


^ 8 


9 59 


2 50 


5 2 


10 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 3 11. 


6 49 


511 


14 14 


22 


11 7 


3 37 


5 49 


11 


5 


JdC — ])'slat.5°S. 


6 48 


512 


13 54 


"I 5 


MORN 


4 23 


6 35 


12 


6 


]) runs low. 


6 47 


5 13 


13 34 


17 


12 13 


5 10 


7 22 


13 


7 


4 rises 2 45. 


6 46 


5 14 


13 14 


29 


1 17 


5 59 


811 


14 


C 


Sexag. S.— Valentine— 4 cj ^ 


6 44 


516 


12 54 


/12 


2 18 


6 49 


9 1 


15 


2 


Arcturus rises 8 58. 


6 43 


5 17 


12 33 


24 


3 15 


7 40 


9 52 


16 


3 


C apogee — J? ^ (J 


6 42 


5 18 


12 12 


>j 5 


4 5 


8 31 


10 43 


17 


4 


]) 's age 26 d. 


6 41 


5 19 


1151 


17 


4 47 


921 


11 33 


18 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 2 40. 


6 39 


5 21 


1130 


29 


5 23 


10 9 


12 21 


19 


6 


enters }£ 


6 38 


^'^t 


11 9 


^11 


5 53 


10 55 


12 43 


20 


7 


(? rises 3 25. 


6 37 


5 23 


10 47 


23 


6 20 


11 39 


127 


21 


C 


Quinq. S. — Q eclipsed invis. 


6 35 


b2b 


10 25 


X 6 


SETS. 


AF.22 


2 10 


'^2 


2 


Spica y^ rises 9 26. 


6 34 


b'^% 


10 4 


18 


7 13 


1 5 


2 53 


23 


3 


Day 10 h. 54 m. long— ^ c^ V^ 


6 33 


5 27 


9 42 


T 1 


818 


147 


3 35 


24 


4 


Ash "Wed.— 5's lat. 4° N. 


6 32 


5 28 


9 19 


14 


9 25 


2 32 


4 20 


25 


5 


7 -Jf' s set 12 29—? J d 


6 30 


5 30 


8 57 


27 


10 35 


319 


5 7 


%^ 


6 


Alioth on Mer. 2 10. 


6 29 


531 


8 35 


«10 


1147 


4 10 


5 58 


27 


7 


5 runs high. 


6 28 


5 32 


8 12 


24 


MORN 


5 5 


6 53 


28 


C 


1st S. in Lent— J)'s a, 7 d. 


6 27 


5 33 


7 50 


n 8 


12 59 


6 5 


7 53 



Vavid Robb has been appointed receiver of the land-office at Indianapolis, and Henri/ Steele 
postmaster in Loudoun county, Virginia. Robb and Steele ! What capital names for a pair 
of sub-treasurers ! — Prentice. 

It is said that agents of the Government are in New York trying to dispose of the Treasury 
notes. — Philadelphia paper. 

These agents, peJJing shin plasters in the name and behalf of the Government of the United 
States, remind us of the Turkish fruiterers who walk through the streets of Stamboul, solemnly 
exclaiming — " in the name of the prophet— ^o-s /"— Prentice. 

Mr. Wright is at least the equal of Mr. Webster in tearing away from a question the web ot 
sophistry. — Georgia Conntitutionalist. 

No he is not. Mr. Wright is tolerably acute, but he can never make a web slir.— Prentice. 

We have reached the end of the whig triumph. — Globe. 
Which end '' — Prentice. 



1841.] 



THIRD MONTH— MARCH. 



[31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES, 


Full Moon 7 d. 8 h. 


26 m. Morning. . . Perhaps snow, or rain. 


(£ Last Quarter 14 11 


17 Afternoon. .Perhaps snow, or rain 


# New Moon 23 9 


27 Afternoon . . Perhaps rain, or snow. 


5 First Quarter 29 9 


41 Afternoon. .Perhaps rain, or snow. 










^ 


^ 




Sun Sun 


O's 


ys 


Moon 


Moon H. W. 


r^ 


REMARKS. 


rises, sets. 


dec. S, 


place. 


sets. 


south. Philada. 


Q 


Q 




H. M.H. M. 


o 




M. H. 


H. M. 1 H. M. 


1 


2 


David — day increased 2 h. 


6 255^35 


7 27 


22 


2 8 7 6, 8 54 


2 


3 


2 sets 9 42, p\ 


6 24' 


5 36 


7 4 


25 6 


3 8 


8 9 9 57 


3 


4 


Ember day — ^'s gr. elong. 


6 23' 


5 37 


6 41 


21 


4 1 


9 910 57 


4 


5 


([ perigee — $'s gr. elong. 


6 21 


5 39 


6 18 SI 5 


4 43 


10 81154 


5 


6 


$ rises 10 0. 


6 20 


5 40 


5 55 


20 


5 18' 


11 012 18 


6 


7 


Alioth on Mer, 1 40. 


6 19 


5 41 


5 31 


r,^ 4 


5 48 


1150 1 12 


7 


C 


2d S. in Lent, J) 's age 14 d. 


6 18 


5 42 


5 8 


18 


RISES 


MORN 


2 2 


8 


2 


7 -X-'s set 1 1 47. 


6 16 


5 44 


4 45 


^ 2 


7 36 


12 38 


2 50 


9 


3 


4 rises 1 25—4 D O 


6 15 


5 45 


4 21 


16 


8 45 


125 


3 37 


10 


4 


]) 's lat, 5 d. S. )^ (^ O 


6 13 


5 47 


3 58 


29 


9 53 


2 12 


424 


11 


5 


Alioth on Mer, 1 22— J sta. 


6 12 


5 48 


3 34 


nil3 


11 1 


3 


512 


12 


6 


J) runs low 


611 


5 49 


311 


25 


MORN 


3 49 


6 1 


13 


7 


Regulus south 10 24. 


6 9 


5 51 


2 47 


t 8 


12 5 


4 40 


6 32 


14 


C 


3d Sun. in Lent — 4 ((, ([_ 


6 8 


5 52 


2 24 


20 


1 5 


5 32 


7 44 


15 





Day 1 1 h, 46 m.— P, 6 <L ^ 


6 7 


5 53 


2 


V3 2 


157 


6 23 


8 35 


16 


3 


([_ apogee. 


6 6 


5 54 


136 


13 


2 42 


713 


9 25 


17 


4 


St. Patrick— 5 'sage 24 d. 


6 4 


5 56 


1 12 


25 


3 21 


8 3 


10 15 


18 


5 


yslat. 1 d. S, 


6 3 


5 51 


49 


^ 7 


3 54 


8 49 


11 1 


19 


6 


Alioth on Mer. 12 53, 


6 2 


5 58 


25 


19 


4 21 


9 34 


1146 


20 


7 


enters <Y' — Spring com. 


6 


6 


s. 1 


X 2 


4 46 


1017 


12 5 


21 


c 


Mid, Lent S.— ? in Inf. d Q 


5 59 


6 1 


N.22 


14 


5 9 


11 


12 48 


22 


2 


^^6(L-^6(L 


5 57 


6 3 


46 


27 


5 31 


1143 


131 


23 


3 


1? rises 1 30—^ a O 


5 56 


6 4 


1 10 


tIO 


SETS. 


AF.29 


2 17 


24 


|4 


7 -X-'s set 10 49, 


5 55 


6 5 


133 


23 


8 24 


1 15 


3 3 


25 


15 


? sets 10 8. 


5 53 


6 7 


157 


8 7 


9 35 


2 6 


3 54 


26 


^ 


^ runs high—? d ([_ 


5 52 


6 8 


2 20 


21 


10 50 


3 1 


4 49 


21 


7 


Antares rises 11 19 — ? ^j ip 


5 51 


6 9 


2 44 


n 5 


1159 


3 59 


5 47 


28 


C 


5th S. in Lent — J) 's age 6d, 


5 50 


6 10 


3 7 


19 


MORN 


5 


6 48 


29 


12 


Day 1 2 h. 24 m.— ])'s lat.3°N. 


5 48 


,6 12 


3 31 


-5 3 


1 3 


6 2 


7 50 


30 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 12 11— f?(^ ? 


5 47 


6 13 


3 54 


17 


1 57 


7 2 


8 50 


31 4 


1 C perigee. 


5 46 


l6 14 


4 17 


SI 1 


2 42 


7 59 


9 47 



Mr. Van Buren is but a shadow of General Jackson. — Vt. Slaiesman. 

And we must say, that the old General casts a smaller shadow than any other grown man that 
we have ever seen or heard of in ail our lives. — Louisville Gazette. 

The New York Times thinks that the sub-treasury is dead. We are certain that many of 
the sub-treasurers are far gone. — Prentice. 

A violent Van Burenite wrote to us on Saturday, abusing us for calling his party loco-focos, 
and bidding us " go to h — ." Really we cannot oblige him in this matter. If wc were to do 
sp, we should be in the very hot-bed of loco-focoism. — Ibid. 

The Van Buren organ at Maysville calls the reading of Mr. Benton's sub-treasury speech, 
" a task." We hope that Bombastes will like the compliment. — Ibid. 

7 



1841.] 


FOURTH 


MONTH— APRIL. 




[30 


Days. 


< M N ',S P H A S E S. 


O Full Moon 5 d. 8 h. 
([_ Last Quarter 13 4 
O New Moon 21 9 
J) First Quarter 28 5 


20 m. Afternoon . . Perhaps rain, or snow. 
45 Afternoon .. Fair — Changeable. 
36 Morning. . , Changeable. 
56 Morning. . .Rain. 


Q 




REMARKS. 


Sun Sun 

rises, sets. 

H. M. H. M. 


dec. N. 


place. 


Moon 
sets. 

H. M. 


Moon 
south. 

H. M. 


H. w. 

Philada. 

H. M. 


1 


5 


]) in node. 


5 446 16 


4 40 


15 


3 18 


8 51 


10 39 


2 


6 


$ sets 10 10.— 5 sta. 


5 43 6 17 


5 3 


29 3 48 


9 42 


1130 


3 


7 


Alioth on Mer. 1 1 55. 


5 42 6 18 


5 26 


.^13 


4 16 


10 30 


12 18 


4 


C 


Palm Sun.— 5'slat. 3°S. 


5 40 6 20 


5 49 


27 


4 40 


11 16 


12 42 


5 


2 


Day 12 h. 42 m.— 4 sta. 


5 39 


621 


6 12 


^11 


RISES 


MORN 


128 


6 


3 


Regains south 8 57. 


5 38 


6 22 


6 35 


24 


7 34 


12 3 


2 15 


7 


4 


$ rises 7 29.—^ c^ C 


5 37 


6 23 


6 57 


"L 8 


8 42 


12 50 


3 2 


8 


5 


5 runs low. 


5 35 


6 25 


7 20 


21 


9 48 


139 


3 51 


9 


6 


Good Friday. — J) 's age 18 d. 


5 34 


6 26 


7 42 


/ 3 


10 51 


2 30 


4 42 


10 


7 


Day 12 h. 54 m.— 4 d d 


5 33 


6 27 


8 4 


15 


1148 


3 22 


5 34 


11 


C 


Easter Sun. — 1? d (I — ^ sta. 


5 31 


6 29 


8 26 


28 


MORN 


4 14 


6 26 


12 


2 


Alioth on Mer. 1 1 22. 


5 30 


6 30 


8 48 


vj 9 


12 36 


5 5 


7 17 


13 


3 


(J apogee. 


5 29 


6 31 


910 


21 


1 IS 


5 55 


8 7 


14 


4 


4 rises 114. v c$ ? 


5 28 


6 32 


9 31 


^ 3 


153 


6 43 


8 55 


15 


5 


7 -X-' s set 9 29. 


5 26 


6 34 


9 53 


15 


2 22 


7 27 


9 39 


16 


6 


Antaris rises 10 17, 


5 25 


6 35 


10 14 


27 


2 48 


811 


10 23 


17 


7 


$ 8 0— y's gr. elong. 


5 24. 


6 36 


10 35 


X 9 


3 9 


8 54 


11 6 


18 


C 


Low Sun. y^ (i(l 


5 23 


6 37 


10 56 


22 


3 34 


9 36 


1148 


19 


2 


Spica tt^ S- 1 1 26.— y c$ (5 


5 21 


6 39 


11 17 


T 5 


3 57 


1021 


12 9 


2d 


3 


O enters ^ — J)'s age 29 d. 


5 20 6 40 


1138 


19 


421 


11 7 


12 55 


21 


4 


D's lat. 5° N. 


5 19 6 41 


1158 


8 2 


4 48 


1157 


145 


22 


5 


]) runs high. — ? sta. 


5 18 6 42 


12 18 


16 


SETS. 


AF.51 


2 39 


23 


6 


Alioth OM Mer. 10^1.-^^(1 


5 17 


6 43 


12 38 


n 1 


9 47 


150 


3 38 


2i 


7 


I? rises 11 21. 


5 15 6 45 


12 58 


15 


10 54 


2 52 


4 40 


25 


C 


2d S. af. East. — (J perigee. 


5 14 6 46 


13 18 


29 


1153 


3 55 


5 43 


26 


2 


? sets 9 14. 


5 13 6 47 


13 37 


zd14 


MORN 


4 57 


6 45 


27 


3 


Dayl3h. 36 m.— D'sl. 1°N. 


5 12 6 48 


13 56 


28 


12 41 


5 54 


7 43 


28 


4 


7-X-'s set 8 41. 


511 


6 49 


14 15 


al2 


1 19 


6 49 


8 37 


29 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 10 18. 


5 106 50 


14 34 


26 


152 


7 38 


9 26 


30 


6 


]) 's age 9 d. 


5 9651 


14 52 


,rKlO 


2 19 


8 26 


1014 



Conservafism vs. Destrudlveism. — The great issue is now made up between the " Loco-Foco 
of half a million," who wields power to secure "spoils," and the >ian of the peopi.e, who has 
been tried in every way, and failed in none, and who has, in the better days of the republic, 
disbursed millions of the public money, without any part of it sticking to his hands ! The 
issue is between Conservatism and Destructiveism — in a word, between William H. Harrison 
and Martin Van Burcn. 

The followincj toast was offered by John C. Montgomery, Esq., at the Harrison and Tiler 
celebration at Harrisburg, of the Anniversary of the birth day of the IMMORTAL WASH- 
INGTON, and was received with great enthusiasm. We recommend it to every patriotic voter 
in the country. 

"The Union of all true Republicans for the sake of the Union." 



1841.] 



FIFTH MONTH— MAY. 



[31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


O Full Moon 5 d. 9 h. 
a Last Quarter 13 9 
New Moon 20 6 
J) First Quarter 27 1 


6ra. Morning Changeable. 

48 Morning Changeable. 

69 Afternoon Perlvaps rain. 

40 Afternoon Rainy. 




7 


REMARKS. 


Sun 

rises. 

H. M. 

5 7 


Sun 

sets. 

H. M. 


dec. N. 


D's 

place. 


Moon 
sets. 

H. M. 


Moon 1 H. W. 
south. Philada. 

H. M. I H. M. 


1 


St. Philip— St. James. 


6 5315 101 


24 


2 43, 9 12 11 


2 


C 


2d S. af. East. 


5 6i6 54,15 28| 


- 7 


3 8 9 571145 


3 


2 


D's lat. 4° S.-J ^ a 


5 5 


6 5515 46 


20 3 33;10 4412 32 


4 


3 


Lyra south 3 47. 


5 4 


6 5610 3 


n,^ 3 3 59^113112 56 


5 


4 


3 runs low. 


5 3 


6 57 16 21 


16 RISES MORN 


143 


6 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 9 52. 


5 2 


6 5816 38 


29 8 38, 


12 21 


2 33 


7 


6 


^ south 10 16. 


5 1 


6 59|16 54 


/ll 


9 37 


113 3 25 


8 


7 


? sets 8 1— 4c{ C— Vd(J 


5 


7 017 10| 


2410 29 


2 5 4 17 


9 


C 


4th S. af. East.— ]) 's age 18 d. 


4 59 


7 1 


17 27 


vj 611 13 


2 57 


5 9 


10 


2 


(J apogee. 


4 58 


7 2 


17 42 


171150 


3 47 


5 59 


11 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 9 32. 


4 57 


7 3 


17 58 


29 MORN 


4 36 


6 48 


12 


4 


Arcturus south 10 49. 


4 56 


7 418 13 


^11 


12 21 


5 21 


7 33 


13 


5 


4 rises 9 0. 


4 55 


7 518 28 


23 


12 49 


6 5 


817 


U 


6 


Lyra south 3 8. — ?'s Inf. ^ Q 


4 54 


7 6,18 42 


X 5 


1 13 


6 47 


8 59 


15 


7 


Day 14 h. 14 m.— ]) 's 1. 8° N. 


4 53 


7 7118 57 


17 


135 


7 29| 9 41 


16 


C 


Rog. S.— 1^ d a—'jfs a. 25 d. 


4 52 


7 819 11 


T 


157 


8111023 


17 


2 


Spica Tt)j south 9 38. 


4 51 


7 919 24 


13 


221 


85711 9 


18 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 9 5. 


4 50 


7 1019 37 


27 


2 48 


9 4511 57 


19 


4 


J) runs high.— y d ? 


4 50 


7 1019 50 


«11 


3 18 


10 37,12 25 


20 


5 


Asc. day—? d ^— ? c^ C 


4 49 


7 1120 3 


25 


3 55 


1135 


123 


21 


6 


Q enters n 


4 48 


7 12 


2015 


nlO 


SETS. 


AF.37 


2 25 


22 


7 


(j; perigee. 


4 47 


7 13 


20 27 


25 


9 42 


142 


3 30 


23 


C 


S. af. Asc. d.— y in ^ 


4 46 


7 14 


20 39 


23 9 


10 35 


2 46; 4 34 


24 


2 


Bootis south 10 31. 


4 46 


7 14 


20 50 


24 


11 19 


3 471 5 35 


25 


3 


[v in sup. d O 


4 45 


7 15 


21 1 


SI 9 


1153 


4 44, 6 32 


26 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 8 33. 


4 44 


7 16 


21 11 


23 


MORN 


5 35 7 23 


27 


5 


Day ]4h.34m.— ])'sl. 2° S. 


4 43 


7 17 


2121 


n^ 7 


12 21 


6 24! 8 12 


■28 


6 


I? rises 9 1. 


4 43 


717 


21 31 


20 


12 48 


7 10 8 58 


29 


7 


^sta. 


4 42 


718 


2140 


- 4 


1 12 


7 56 9 44 


30 


C 


Whit-Sunday.— J ^ (J 


4 42 


7 18 


2149 


17 


137 


8411029 


31 


2 


5 'sage 11 d. 


4 41 


7 19 


2158 


ni 


2 2 


92711 15 



Opinion of SIMON SNYDER, the idol of the Democracy of Pennsylvania during the 
last tvar. 

"The BLESSIJTGS op THOUSAITDS of WOUIEN AXD CHILDREIf RESCUED FROM THE SCALPIXO 
KNIFE OF THE RUTHLESS SAVAGE OF THE WILDERNESS, AND FROM THE STILL MORE SAVAGE 

PitocTOR, REST ON HARRISON, AND HIS GALLANT ARJir." — Siiiton Suydcr's Message to 
the Legislature, Dec. 10, 1813. 

The administration begs Congress for more money, but, in the most arbitrary manner, dictates 
the amount that must be bestowed and the time and manner of raising it. What would be 
thought of a beggar in the street who should assume so insolent a tone 1 — Prentice. 

The administration party is up and doing. — Globe. 

Ay, doing before a hot fire. It will soon be done. — Prentice. 

9 



1841.] 



SIXTH MONTH— JUNE. 



[30 Days 



MOON'S PHASES. 


O Full Moon 3d. lOh. 
C Last Quarter 11 10 
« New Moon 19 2 
3) First Quarter 25 10 


57 m. Afternoon Perhaps rain. 

46 Afternoon Perhaps rain. 

32 Morning Cold, with showers. 

13 Afternoon Perhaps rain. 




Q 

3 


REMARKS. 


Sun 
rises. 

H. M. 


Sun O's 
sets. dec. N. 

H. M. ° ' 


place. 


Moon 

sets. 

H. M. 


Moon H. W. 
south. Philada. 

H. M. H. M. 


1 


5 runs low. 


4 40 


7 2022 6 


13 


2 30 


101512 3 


2 


4 


Emberday— D'slat. 5° S. 


4 40 


7 20 22 14 


25 


3 2 


11 71227 


3 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 8 0—? sta. 


4 39 


7 2122 22 


t 8 


3 42 


1158, 1 19 


4 


6 


Day 14h.43m.— 4cj(j 


4 39 


721 


22 29 


20 


RISES 


MORN 2 10 


5 


7 


Bootis south 9 42—4 g Q 


4 38 


7 22 


22 36 


^3 2 


9 9 


12 50 3 2 


6 


C 


Trin. Sun.— 4 south 1 1 53. 


4 38 


7 22 


22 42 


14 


9 49 


1 41 3 53 


7 


2 


(I apogee. 


4 37 


7 23 


22 48 


26 


10 21 


2 30 4 42 


8 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 7 39. 


4 37 


7 23 


22 53 


z^ 8 


10 49 


3 16: 5 28 


9 


4 


^ sets 1 35. 


4 37 


7 23 


22 58 


19 


11 15 


4 1 613 


10 


5 


5)'s iat. 2° N. 


4 36 


7 24 


23 3 


X 1 


1137 


4 43; 6 55 


11 


6 


? rises 2 50. 


4 36 


7 24 


23 7 


13 


1159 


5 24 7 36 


12 


7 


'i'c^cs 


4 36 


7 24 


23 11 


2Q 


MORN 


6 6 8 18 


13 


C 


1st S. af. Trin.— T)'s a. 24 d. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 15 


T 8 


12 21 


6 48 9 


U 


2 


^ south 12 28. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 18 


21 


12 45 


7 33 9 45 


15 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 7 10— ^^i D O 


4 35 


7 25 


23 20 


« 5 


1 13 


8 23 10 35 


16 


4 


D runs high— '^ o' C 


4 35 


7 25 


23 23 


19 


147 


9171129 


17 


5 


Day 14 h. 50 m. long. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 24 


n 3 


2 28 


10 1712 5 


18 


6 


Antares south 10 30. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 26 


18 


3 21 


1121 1 9 


19 


7 


(£_ perigee. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 27 


s 3 


SETS. 


AF.28 2 16 


20 


C 


2d S. af. Trin.— ^ i (J 


4 35 


7 25 


23 27 


18 


9 12 


1 321 3 20 


21 


2 


O enters gj, S. com. — ^ § 


4 35 


7 25 


23 28 


SI 3 


9 51 


2 33 4 21 


22 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 6 42. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 27 


18 


10 23 


3 28 5 16 


23 


4 


D's lat. 2° S. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 27 




10 51 


4 19, 6 7 


24 


5 


4 south 10 33. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 26 


17 


11 15 


5 1 655 


25 


6 


^ sets 12 34. 


4 35 


7 25 23 24 


- 1 


1140 


5 54 7 42 


26 


7 


;3)'sage7 d. 


4 35 


125 2'i22 


14 


MORN 


6 39, 8 27 


27 


C 


3d S. af. Trin.- J J C 


4 35 


7 25 23 20 


27 


12 6 


7 25; 9 13 


28 


2 


5 runs low. 


4 35 


;7 25 23 17 


nilO 


12 33 


8 1310 1 


29 


3 


Reg. sets 10 10 — ^'s gr. elong. 


4 36 


7 24 23 14 


22 


1 4 


9 310 51 


30 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 6 8. 


4 36 


724 2311 


t 5 


141 


9 5411 42 



A Vermont Loco-foco paper says that "an acre of democrats" lately assembled in convention 
at Montpelier. Among the Resolutions adopted by this " acre of democrats," was one declaring 
that the effect of the sub-treasury would be to raise the wages of labour !!! What a wise-acre ! 
— Prentice. 

Mr. Van Buren loves the people. — Globe. 

But the people don't return his passion. The poor man is " crossed in love." — Prentice. 

The issue of Treasury notes cannot be objected to from any other than factious motives. — Globe. 

Gen. Jackson himself, no longer ago than last June, wrote to the Editor of the Globe. — " / 
hope no Treasury notes will be issued."' Why does not the Globe turn and curse the "factious" 
tenant of the Hermitage 1 — Prentice. 

10 



1841.] 



SEVENTH MONTH— JULY. 



[31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 

O Full Moon 3d. 1 h. 41 m. Afternoon Rainy. 

C Last Quarter 11 10 33 Morning Frequent showers. 

O New Moon 18 9 24 Morning Changeable. 

]) First Quarter 25 8 11 Morning Changeable. 






1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7l 

8 

9 

10 

11 

12 

13 

11 

15 

IG 

17 

18 

19 

20 

21 

22 

23 

21 

25 

2Q 

21 

28 

29 

30 

31 



REMARKS. 



5 
6 

7 

C 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

C 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

C 

3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
C 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 



Sun 



Sun 
rises, sets. 

i. M. IH. M 



O'S 

dec. N. 



Q in apogee — 4 (j (J 

Ipc^S— D'sagelSd. 

Alioth on Mer. 5 56. 

Ind.— 4 th S. af. Trin.— (Japo. 

% rises 2 2. 

Lyra south 1 1 27. 

J sets 1 1 56. * 

llegulus sets 9 33. 

5)'s lat. 4° N.— h^ i a 

AntaressouthS 58. 

5th S. af. Trin.— J)'s a. 22 d. 

li south 9 15. 

J) runs hi^h. 
Alioth on Mer. 5 11. 
Day 14 h. '34 m.—? c^ (J 

^) south 10 12. 
B.'s eye rises 1 44. 

6th S. af. Trin. — ([^ perigee. 

^ 6 <L [O eel. invis. 

? rises 1 45. 

Alioth on Mer. 4 43. 

J)'s lat. 4° S. 

Q enters £l 

^'s gr. elong. 

7th S. af. Trin. — "]) runs low. 

Alioth on Mer. 4 24. [$ d d 

?'s Inf cj O 

46(i 

ysage 11 d.— l?c^(J 

Lyra south 9 51. 

Day 14 h. 8 m.— ^ Q O 



4 36 7 24 23 
4 36 7 24'23 

4 37j7 23;22 58 
4 37i7 23 22 53| 
4 37,7 2322 47' 
4 38 7 22122 41 
4 38'7 22\22 35 
4 39 7 2122 28 
4 39^7 2122 21 
4 40|7 20 22 14 
4 40 7 20122 6 



4 41 

4 42 

4 42 



D's 


Moon 


place. 


sets. 




H. M. 


17 


2 23 


29 


3 14 


vfll 


RISES 


23 


8 24 


jyy 4 


8 53 


16 


919 


28 


9 42 


xlO 


10 2 



Moon 
south. 



H. W. 

Philada. 



10 4612 6 

11 3612 58 



22110 25 



4 43 
4 43 
4 44 
4 45 
4 46 



1921 58 
182149 
1821 40 
17 21 30 
172121 
1621 11 
1521 
14 20 49 
4 4617 14 20 38 
4 47 7 13'20 27 



4 48 
4 49 
4 50 



7 12 2015 
7 1l|20 3 
7 10;i9 50 
4 5017 10(19 37 
4 51i7 9,19 24 



4 52 7 
4 53 7 
4 54 7 

4 55 7 

4 5617 



8,1911 

718 57 
618 43 

5 18 28 



41814 



T 5 
17 

« 
14 

28 
nl2 

27 

25 12 

27 
al2 

27 
m\2 

26 
^10 

24 
ni 7 

19 
t 2 

14 

26 
vy 8 

20 



10 48 

11 12 

11 41 

MORN 

12 19 

1 5 

2 2 

3 13 

SETS. 

8 20 

8 50 
917 

9 42 
10 9 

10 36 

11 6 
1141 

MORN 

12 21 
1 9 

9 



MORN 

12 26 

1 14 
158 

2 41 

3 22 

4 2 

4 44 

5 28 

6 13 

7 3 



148 

2 38 

3 26 

4 10 

4 53 

5 34 

6 14 

6 56 

7 40 

8 25 
915 



7 591011 
9 Oil 12 

10 5 12 17 

11 1012 58 
AF.131 2 1 



1 13 

2 8 

2 59 

3 47 

4 35 

5 22 
610 

6 59 



3 1 

3 56 

4 47 

5 35 

6 23 

7 10 

7 58 

8 47 

9 38 



7 50, 

8 4210 30 

9 321120 
2102312 11 
I'll 11 12 35 



General Harrison's moral principle. — Many old settlers upon lands in and around Cincin- 
nati held possession of their lots by titles which proved to be unsound. Former possessors 
were re-assuming their claims, and this without bringing disgrace upon themselves. An indi- 
vidual who was Uving upon land of which it was found that Gen. Harrison and a relative of his 
were the legal owners, went to the former asking him to name the terms of a compromise. 
•' Sir," answered he, " where I have no moral title, I have no legal title ;" and soon after this, 
both he and his friend gave in their quit-claim deeds to the parties concerned. 

The Government by its various outrages upon public opinion, has already raised a storm of 
indignation that will sweep away every vestige of the party in power. — Alex. Gazette. 

We very much doubt the ability of the government to raise a storm. It has been trying in 
vain " to raise the wind" for the last six months. — Prentice, 

U 



1841.] 



EIGHTH MONTH— AUGUST. 



[31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 



O Full Moon 2d. 5 h. m. 

a Last Quarter 9 8 42 

O New Moon 16 4 31 

J) First Quarter 23 8 25 

O Full Moon 31 8 21 



Morning Rain. 

Afternoon Perhaps rain. 

Afternoon Changeable. 

Afternoon Perhaps rain. 

Afternoon Perhaps rain. 



^ 


i 




Sun 


Sun 


O's 


D's 


Moon 


Moon 


H. W. 




EE MARKS. 


rises. 


sets. 


dec. N. 


place. 


sets. 


south. 


Philada. 


Q 


Q 




H. M. 


H. M. 







H. M. 


H. M. 


H. M. 


1 


c 


8th S. af. Trin.— (J apogee. 


4 57 


7 3 


17 58 


^ 2 


4 2 


1156 


123 


2 


9 


J) eclipsed, part vis. 


4 58 


7 2 


17 43 


13RISES 


MORN 


2 8 


3 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 3 52. 


4 59 


7 1 


17 27 


25 7 45 


12 40 


2 52 


4 


4 


$ rises 1 41. 


5 


7 


17 12 


X 7 8 8 


121 


3 33 


5 


5 


7 -X-'s rise 1 1 7. 


5 1 


6 59 


16 55 


19 


8 31 


2 2 


4 14 


6 


6 


^i^ d (J—? sta. 4 sta. 


5 2 


6 58 


16 39 


T 1 


^8 52 


2 44 


4 56 


7 


7 


J)'s lat. 5° N. 


5 3 


6 57 


16 22 


14 


916 


3 25 


5 37 


8 


C 


OthS.af. Trin.— 5)'sa.21d. 


5 4 


6 56 


16 5 


27 


9 44 


4 10 


6 22 


9 


2 


5 runs high. 


5 5 


6 55 


15 48 


«10 


10 17 


4 58 


7 10 


10 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 3 25. 


5 6 


6 54 


15 30 


23 


10 56 


5 50 


8 2 


11 


4 


J sets 10 23. 


5 7 


6 53 


15 13 


n 7 


1147 


6 46 


8 58 


12 


5 


Lyra south 9 2, 


5 8 


6 52 


14 55 


21 


MORN 


7 47 


9 59 


13 


6 


Day 13h. 42 m.— ?(^(J 


5 9 


6 51 


14 36 


s 5 


12 49 


8 50 


11 2 


14 


7 


^ south 8 1 3. [?'s gr. elong. 


511 


6 49 


14 18 


20 


2 3 


9 54 


12 6 


15 


C 


1 0th S. af. Trin.—^ peri.— ? c^ d 


5 12 


6 48 


13 59 


SI 5 


3 22 


10 55 


12 43 


16 


2 


O eclipsed invis. 


5 13 


6 47 


13 40 


20 


4 42 


1151 


139 


17 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 2 59. 


5 14 


6 46 


13 21 


Ti;j 5 


SETS. 


AF.45 


2 33 


18 


4 


D's lat. 3° S. 


5 15 


6 45 


13 2 


20 


7 41 


135 


3 23 


19 


5 


Lyra south 8 35. 


5 17 


6 43 


12 42 


- 5 


8 9 


2 25 


4 13 


20 


6 


4 sets 1 1 22. 


5 18 


6 42 


12 22 


19 


8 36 


3 13 


5 1 


21 


7 


7:)f'srise 10 7. 


5 19 


6 41 


12 3 


n 2 


9 5 


4 2 


5 50 


22 


C 


llthS. af. Trin. — 5 runs low. 


5 20 


6 40 


1142 


15 


9 40 


4 53 


6 41 


23 


2 


O enters ii^— J ^ (f 


5 21 


6 39 


11 22 


28 


10 18 


5 44 


7 32 


24 


3 


Antares sets 10 29, — 4 (j (J 


5 22 


6 38 


11 2 


tU 


11 4 


6 36 


8 24 


25 


4 


Day 13h. 12 m.— ^c^(J 


5 2i 


6 36 


10 41 


23 


1156 


7 28 


9 16 


26 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 2 26. — ? sta. 


5 25 


6 35 


10 20 


>? 5 


MORN 


8 1810 6 


21 


6 


3 's age lid. 


5 26 


6 34 


9 59 


17 


12 43 


9 810 56 


28 


7 


3 apogee. [beheaded. 


5 21 


6 33 


9 38 


28 


154 


9 54111 42 


29 


c 


1 2th S, af. Trin— St.John Bap. 


5 28 


6 32 


9 16 


.^10 


2 55 


10 3812 6 


30 


2 


Day decreased 1 h. 50 m. 


5 30 


6 30 


8 55 


22 


3 56 


11 2112 50 


31 


3 [ Sirius rises 2 56. — ^ sta. 


5 31 


6 29 


8 33 


K 4 


RISES 


MORN 1 33 



Harnson''s Birth-PIace. — Harrison's birth-place in Virginia has gone for him Uxanimouslt, 
as appears by the following result. 

James CUy, York, and Wi/llams/mro-, — James Pity county, is the birth place of Gen. Har- 
rison and John Tyler — it gave the Whigs a unanimous vote — and in the delegate district, there 
are but six Locos. 

While in Kinderhook, Mr. Van Buren's birth-place, he was beaten largely at the last elec 
lion. Is this a sign ? 

The hand writing is on the wall. 

The ship of state will soon be afloat. — Globe, 

Upon a " sea of trouble." — Prentice. 

12 



1841.] 


NINTH MONTH— SEPTEMBER. 


[30 


Days. 


MOON'S PHASES. 


([_ Last Quarter 7 d. 5 h. 


45 m. Morning Rain. 


9 New Moon 15 12 


52 Morning Fair. 


3 First Quarter 22 11 


18 Morning Frequent showers. 


Full Moon 30 11 


1 1 INIorning Frequent showers. 


^ 


^ 




Sun 


Sun 


O's 1 3's 


Moon 


Moon 1 H.W. 


^ 


REMARKS. 


rises. 


sets. 


dec. N. 1 place. 


rises. 


south. Philada. 


Q 


Q 




H. M. 


H. M. 


o . 1 


M. H. 


H. M. 1 H. M. 


1 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 2 4. 


5 32 6 28 


8 12, 16 


6 3612 2 


2 14 


2 


5 


? rises 2 4— (Ji ^ (J 


5 33 6 27 


7 50 29 


6 5812 43 


2 55 


3 


6 


7 -Jf' s rise 9 24—4 □ O 


5 35 6 25 


7 28 Til 


7 22 125 


3 37 


4 


7 


])'slat. 5°. N. 


5 36 6 24 


7 6 24 


7 48 


2 9 


4 21 


5 


C 


13th S, af. Trin.— J) runs h. 


5 37 


6 23 


6 43i« '^ 


8 18 


2 55 


5 7 


6 


2 


Sirius rises 2 36. 


5 39 


621 


6 21 20 


8 56 


3 45 


5 57 


7 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 1 43. 


5 40 


6 20 


5 59n 3 


9 40 


4 39 


6 51 


8 


4 


Arcturus sets 10 11. 


5 41 


6 19 


5 36 


17 


10 38 


5 37 


7 49 


9 


5 


^ in sup. d 


5 42 


6 18 


5 13 


s 1 


1144 


6 39 


8 51 


10 


6 


^ sets 9 21. 


5 44 


6 16 


4 50 


15 


MORN 


7 39 


9 51 


11 


7 


3's age 26 d. 


5 45 


6 15 


4 28 


SI 


12 59 


8 39 


10 51 


\2 


C 


l4thS.aft.Trin.— ?(5(I 


5 46 


6 14 


4 5 


14 


2 16 


9 36 


1148 


13 


2 


C perigee. 


5 48 


6 12 


3 42 


29 


3 34 


10 31 


12 43 


14 


3 


Holy-cross — J)'s age 29 d. 


5 49 


611 


3 19 


11^14 


4 51 


1122 


1 10 


15 


4 


Ember day— l^i 8 0" ? 6 d 


5 50 


6 10 


2 55 


28 


SETS. 


AF.12 


2 


16 


5 


B.'s eye rises 9 51. 


5 51 


6 9 


2S2 


^13 


6 34 


1 1 


2 49 


17 


6 


Alioth on Mer. 1 7. 


5 53 


6 7 


2 9 


27 


7 3 


151 


3 39 


18 


7 


J) runs low. 


5 54 


6 6 


146 


kIO 


7 36 


2 42 


4 30 


19 


C 


15th S. af. Trin.— ^ D 


5 55 


6 5 


122 


24 


814 


3 34 


5 22 


20 


2 


Dayl2h.5m.— ^(^(J 


5 51 


6 3 


59 


/ 6 


8 59 


4 27 


6 15 


21 


3 


St. Mathew— 4 c( ^— ^ 6 d 


5 58 


6 2 


36 


19 


9 48 


5 20 


7 8 


22 


4 


O enters :i!= — Autumn com. 


5 59 


6 1 


N.12 


V? 1 


10 43 


611 


7 59 


2S 


5 


4 sets 9 18. 


6 1 


5 59 


s. 11 


13 


1144 


7 2 


8 50 


24 


6 


<[_ apogee. 


6 2 


5 58 


34 


25 


MORN 


7 49 


9 37 


25 


7 


Alioth on Mer. 12 38. 


6 3 


5 57 


58 


^ 7 


12 45 


8 34 


10 22 


26 


C 


10th S. af. Trin.— J)'s a. 11 d. 


6 5 


5 55 


121 


18 


146 


9 17 


11 5 


27 


2 


f? sets 10 00—^ (j 4 


6 6 


5 54 


145 


X 


2 47 


9 59 


1147 


28 


3 


7 ^'s rise 7 50, 


6 7 


5 53 


2 8 


13 


3 49 


10 41 


12 11 


29 


4 


D'slat.4°N.— )J{J(5 


6 8 


5 52 


2 31 


25 


4 51 


1122 


12 53 


30 


5 


St. Jerome — ? rises 2 53. 


6 10 


5 50 


2 55 


T 8 


RISES 


MORN 


134 



The Globe says, " the Government is opposed to imprisonment for debt." No doubt of that, 
for if imprisonment for debt were in force, the Government itself would have been peeping 
through the bars of a jail long ago. — Prentice, 

Three years ago the Globe alluded to a certain local victory of the Whigs as " a solitary me- 
teor in the Whig sky." We beg the editor to tell us what he thinks of the late ' meteoric 
shower.' — Ibid. , 

The editor of the Richmond Inquirer says that he " will sink or swim with Van Buren." 
We think the old fellow will find himself like the hog — the divinity that he worships. If he 
sink, he will be strangled to death outright ; and if he swim, he will cut his own throat with 
every stroke of his paw. — Ibid. 

B 13 



1841.] 


TENTH MONTH-^ 


OCTOBER. 




[31 


Days. 


MOON'S PHASES. 


a Last Quarter 7 d. 2 h. 


37 m. Afternoon Ilain. 


O New Moon 14 11 


19 Morn 
33 Aften 


ng \ 


V'ind — showers, 
air — changeable. 


]) First Quarter 22 4 


loon F 


O Full Moon 30 1 


6 Morning Fair — frostr 


S i 


i^ 




Sun 


Sun O's 


3)'s 


Moon 


Moon H.W. 




EEMARKS. 


rises. 


sets. dec. S. 


place. 


rises. 


south. Philada. 


Q 


6 




H. M. 


H. M. ° ' 




H. M. 


H. M. H. M. 


1 


3 's lat. 5° N. 


6 11 


5 49 3 18! 201 


55112 6 2 18 


2 


7 


7 -X-'s rise 7 36. 


6 12 


5 48 


3 41 


« 3 


621 


12 52 3 4 


3 


C 


17thS. af. Trin.— J)runsh. 


6 14 


5 46 


4 5 


17 


6 58 


1 42 3 54 


4 


2 


Alioth on Mer, 12 6. 


6 15 


5 45 


4 28 


n 


7 40 


2 36 4 48 


5 


3 


$ sets 8 46. 


6 16 


5 44 


4 51 


14 


8 33 


3 32 5 44 


6 


4 


? rises 3 5. 


6 18 


5 42 


5 14 


28 


9 36 


4 32 


6 44 


7 


5 


3's age 22 d. 


6 19 


5 41 


5 37 s 12 10 47 


5 32 


7 44 


8 


6 


4 sets 8 27. 


6 20 


5 40 


6 26 MORN 


6 32 8 44 


9 


7 


Alioth on Mer. 1 1 47. 


6 22 


5 38 


6 23 


silO 


12 


7 26; 9 38 


10 


C 


18th S. af. Trin. — (J perigee. 


6 23 


5 37 


6 46 


24 


1 15 


821:1033 


11 


2 


B.'s eye rises 8 21. 


6 24 


5 36 


7 8 


r\]i 8 


2 30 


9111123 


\2 


3 


Dayllh. 10 m.— f dC, 


6 25 


5 35 


7 31 


23 


3 44 


10 112 13 


13 


4 


ys\at.i°.S. 


6 21 


5 33 


7 54 


- 7 


4 55 


10 5012 38 


14 


5 


Arcturus sets 8 1. 


6 28 


5 32 


816 


21 


6 7 


11391 127 


15 


6 


J) runs low. 


6 29 


531 


8 38 


K 5 


SETS. 


AF.30 2 18 


16 


7 


Alioth on Mer. 1 1 21—?^ fJ, (J 


6 31 


5 29 


9 1 


18 


5 9 


122 


3 10 


17 


C 


19th S. af. Trin.— J ^J, P, 


6 32 


5 28 


9 23 


/ 2 


6 51 


2 15 


4 3 


18 


2 


U6(L 


6 33 


5 27 


9 45 


14 


7 40 


3 9 


4 57 


19 


3 


^ d (J-"? c! D 


6 34 


5 26 


10 6 


27 


8 34 


4 3 


5 51 


20 


4 


7 -X-'s south 1 59. 


6 36 


5 24 


10 28 


vj 9 


9 32 


4 53 


6 41 


21 


5 


P) sets 8 32. 


6 37 


5 23 


10 49 


21 


10 33 


5 42 


7 30 


22 


6 


C apogee. 


6 38 


5 22 


11 10 


^ 3 


1134 


6 28 


816 


23 


7 


O enters n\^ 


6 39 


52\ 


1132 


15 


MORN 


7 12 


9 


24 


C 


20th S af.Trin.— J)'sa.lOd. 


6 41 


5 19 


1153 


26 


12 35 


7 54 


9 42 


25 


2 


y's gr. elong. 


6 42 


5 18 


12 13 


X 8 


1 35 


8 35 


10 23 


26 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 10 45— ijl ^j (J 


6 43 


517 


12 34 


21 


2 36 


9 1711 5 


27 


4 


])'slat.4°N. 


6 44 


5 16 


12 54 


T 3 


3 39 


959I1I 47 


28 


5 


4 sets 7 22. 


6 45 


5 15 


13 14 


16 


4 42 


IO45I12 11 


29 


6 


3) runs high. 


6 47 


5 13 


13 34 


29 


5 51 


11 35:12 57 


30 


7 


? rises 3 56. 


6 48 


5 12 


13 54 


«13 


RISES 


MORN 


147 


31 


C 


21st S. af. Trin.— J)'s a. 17d. 


6 49 


511 


14 14 


26 


5 37 


12 28 


1 2 40 

1 



Richard M. Johnson's opinion of Harrison. — " Who is Gen. Harrison ? The son of one of 
the signers of the Declaration of Independence, who spent the greater part of his large fortune 
in redeeming the pledge he then gave 'of his fortune, life, and sacred honour,' to secure the 
liberties of his country. 

" Of the career of Gen. Harrison I need not speak — the history of the West is his history. 
For forty years he has been identified with its interests, its perils, and its hopes. Universally 
beloved in the walks of peace, and distinguished by his ability in the councils of his country, 
he has been yet more illustriously distinguished in the field. 

" During the late war he was longer in active service than any other general officer ; he was 
perhaps oftener in action than any of them, and never sustained a defeat."— i2. M. Johnson. 

14 



1841.] 



ELEVENTH MONTH— NOVEMBER. [30 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


a Last Quarter 5d. llh, 
e New Moon 13 12 
3 First Quarter 20 11 
Full Moon 28 2 


58 m. Afternoon . . Perhaps rain, or snow. 
40 Morning. . .Fair — frosty. 

4 Afternoon. .Perhaps rain, or snow. 

Afternoon. .Rain, or snow. 


IS 


Q 

2 


REMARKS. 


Sun 
rises. 

H. H. 


Sun 1 O's 
sets, j dec. S. 

H. M. ! " ' 


place. 


Moon 

rises. 

H. M. 


Moon i H. W. 
south. jPhilada. 

H. M. H. M. 


1 


All Saints— ]) 'slat. 4° N. 


6 50 


5 1014 33nl0i 


6 29 


125 


3:37 


2 


3 


$ rises 4 2. 


6 51 


5 9 


14 52 24| 


7 29 


2 20 


4 38 


3 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 10 13. 


6 53 


5 r. 


1511 


Z5 8 


8 38 


3 26 


5 38 


4 


5 


C perigee. 


6 54 


5 6 


15 29 


22 


951 


4 27 


6 39 


5 


6 


Day 10 h. 10 m.—';^ sta. 


6 55 


5 5 


15 48 


SI 7 


11 5 


5 23 


7 35 


6 


7 


B.'s eye south 1 42. 


6 56 


5 4 


16 6 


21 


MORN 


6 17 


8 29 


7 


C 


22d S. af. Trin.— J)'s a. 24 d. 


6 57 


5 3 


16 24 


Tl^ 5 


12 19 


7 7 


9 19 


8 


2 


Sirius rises 10 38. ' 


6 58 


5 2 


16 41 


19 


130 


7 56 


10 8 


9 


3 


Alioth on Mer, 9 49, 


6 59 


5 1 


16 58 


^ 3 


2 41 


8 43 


10 55 


10 


4 


P, sets 7 20. 


7 


5 


17 15 


10 


3 51 


9 31 


1143 


11 


5 


]) runs low — ? (^ (J 


7 1 


4 59 


17 32 


n, 


5 1 


10 20 


12 8 


12 


6 


Bootis rises 3 42. 


7 2 


4 58 


17 48 


14 


611 


11 11 


12 59 


13 


7 


4 sets 6 32—? (^ (J 


7 4 


4 56 


18 4 


27 


SETS. AF. 4 


152 


14 


C 


23d S. af. Trin.— J)'s lat. 4° S, 


7 5 


4 55 


18 20 


tio 


5 30 12 58 


2 46 


15 





46 a 


7 6 


4 54 


18 35 


22 


6 23 


151 


3 39 


16 


3 


y in Inf. c$ 0— '^ ci d 


7 7 


4 53 


18 50 


Vf 5 


7 21 


2 45 


4 33 


17 


4 


AliothonMer.9 16— J(^(J 


7 7 


4 53 


19 5 


17 


8 20 


3 34 


5 22 


18 


5 


Fomal. south 7 12. 


7 8 


4 52 


19 19 


29 


9 22 


4 21 


6 9 


19 


6 


(£ apogee. 


7 9 


451 


19 33 


^11 


10 23 


5 6 


6 54 


20 


7 


7 -Jf' s south 1 1 52. 


7 10 


4 50 


19 47 


22 


1123 


5 48 


7 36 


21 


C 


24th S. af, Trin.— J)'s a. 8 d. 


711 


4 49 


20 1 


X 4 


MORN 


6 28 


816 


22 





enters / 


7 12 


4 48 


20 13 


16 


12 22 


7 10 


8 58 


23 


3 


Day 9 h. 34 m.—)f 6 (I 


7 13 


4 47 


20 26 


28 


122 


7 51 


9 39 


24 


4 


$ sets 8 22. 


7 14 


4 46 


20 38 


Til 


2 25 


8 36 


10 24 


25 


5 


1) runs high — ? sta. 


7 15 


4 45 


20 50 


24 


3 31 


9 22 


11 10 


26 


6 


j)'slat, 5°N. ^ 


7 15 


4 4521 2 


« 7 


4 38 


1015 


12 3 


27 


7 


Sirius rises 9 22. 


7 16 


4 44 21 13 


21 


5 49 


11 1012 57 


28 


C 


Advent S. — ^'s age 15 d. 


7 17 


4 43 2123 


n 5 


RISES 


MORN 


122 


29 


2 




7 17 


4 43 


21 33 


19 


5 15 


12 11 


2 23 


30 


3 


St. Andrew— IJf sta. 


7 18 


4 42 


2143 


25 4 


6 23 


1 14 


3 26 



Though the election has gone against us, we have not met with a Van Buren man yet, who 
despairs of the republic. — Richmond Enquirer, 

Probably not. The Van Burenites have too much sense to despair of the republic merely 
because they see the Government passing into the hands of the Whigs. They despair of the 
svoik, but not of the republic. — Louisville Jour. 

A Tory editor in Mississippi threatens to ' put a full stop over each of the eyes of the editor 
of the Journal.' IiCt him try it. Whilst he is putting his full stops over our eyes, we will put 
his nose in a parenthesis. — Ibid. 

The Whigs have in a manner stolen our thunder. — Dnyton (0.) Herald. 

We can assure that chap that the Whigs have not meddled with his ' thunder,' but they will 
60on show him and his party, that they have stolen a few earthquakes. — Prentice. 

15 



1841.] 



TWELFTH MONTH— DECEMBER. [31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 



C Last Quarter 5d. 10 h. 20 ra. 
e New Moon 12 4 53 
J) First Quarter 20 5 49 
O Full Moon 28 1 53 



Morning Cold high wind. 

Afternoon Fair. 

Afternoon Fair. 

Morning Fair and frosty. 



^1^ 




Sun 


Sun O's 


])'s Moon Moon H. W. 


REMARKS. 


rises. 


sets. dec. S. 


place, rises, south. [Philada. 


p id 




H. M. 


H. M. ° ' 


H. M. H. M. I H. M. 


1 4 


C perigee. 


7 19 


4 41|2153 


18 7 37; 2 16 


4 28 


2 5 


Alioth on Mer. 8 13. 


7 19 


4 4122 2 


SI 3 8 56 3 17 


5 29 


3 6 


y's gr. elong. 


7 20 


4 402210 


1710 10 4 13 


6 25 


4 


7 


Pegasia south 6 12. 


7 20 


4 40 22 18 


Ti^ 2,11 23 


5 4 


7 16 


5 


C 


2d Sun. is Adv. — ^ sets 8 22. 


7 21 


4 39 


22 26 


16 MORN 


5 54 


8 6 


6 


2 


B.'s eye south 1 1 32. 


721 


4 39 


22 33 


2912 33 


6 41 


8 53 


7 3 


? rises 5 26. 


7 22 


4 38 


22 40 


=^13 


1 42 7 28 


9 40 


&|4 


J) runs low — ? sta. 


7 23 


4 37 


22 47 


27 


2 50 8 16 


10 28 


91 5 


Alioth on Mer, 7 42. 


7 23 


4 37 


22 52 


nilO 


3 58 9 4 


11 16 


10! 6 


^ sets 5 36. 


7 23 


4 37 


22 58 


23 


5 6 9 56 


12 8 


lli7 


^6(i-^6€ 


7 24 


4 36 


23 3 


/ 6 


6 111049 


12 37 


12|C 


3d S. in Advent—}^ Q 


7 24 


4 36 23 7 


18 


7 111143 


131 


13! 2 


D'sIat.2°S.— 4c^([— ^dC 


7 24 


4 36 23 12 


vs 1 


SETS. AF.36 


2 24 


14 3 


7 -X-'s south 10 9, 


7 25 


4 35 23 15 


13 


6 9 .127 


3 15 


15 


4 


Ember day — J) in node. 


7 25 


4 35 23 18 


25 


711 


2 16 


4 4 


16 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 7 11. 


7 25 


4 35 23 21 


^ 7 


811 


3 


4 48 


17 


6 


C apogee— J d (J 


7 25 


4 35 23 23 


19 


9 12 


3 44 


5 32 


18 


7 


B.'s eye south 10 39. 


7 25 


4 35123 25 


K 


10 101 4 24 


6 12 


19 


C 


4th Sun. in Advent. 


7 25 


4 35 23 26 


12 


11 10 


5 4 


6 52 


20 


2 


Day 9 h. 10 m.— )^ ^ (J 


7 25 


4 35 23 27 


24 


MORN 


5 45 


7 33 


21 


3 


O enters VJ — "Wint. com. 


7 25 


4 35 23 28 


T 6 


12 10 


6 27 


815 


22 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 6 45—4 6 O 


7 25 


4 35 23 27 


19 


1 12 


7 12 


9 


23 


5 


D runs high. 


7 25 


4 35'23 27 


« 2 


2 18 


8 


9 48 


24 


6 


7 -K-'s south 9 24. 


7 25 


4 35 23 26 


15 


3 26 


8 53 


10 41 


25 


7 


Christmas — j) 's lat. 4° N. 


7 25 


4 35j23 24 


29 


4 37 


9 51 


1139 


26 


C 


1st. S. af. Christmas. 


7 25 


4 35 23 22 


nl3 


5 4710 53 


12 3 


27 


2 


St. John— P, ^ O 


7 25 


4 35 23 20 


27 


6 511158 


1 5 


28j3 


Innocents — 5 rises 6 13. 


7 25 


4 352317 


sl2 


RISES MORN 


2 10 


29 4 


([_ perigee — J) 's age 1 7 d. 


7 24 


4 36 23 13 


27 


6 34 


1 


3 12 


30 5 


Q in perigee. 


7 24 


4 36123 9 


al2 


7 53 


2 1 


4 13 


31 


6 


Silvester. 


7 24 


4 36 


23 5 


27 


9 8 


2 57 


5 9 



Cease your base slanders, ye vipers ! you gnaw against a file— remember that every ounce 
of abuse lavished upon the patriot soldier, produces a poimd, avoirdupois weight, of friends. 

Selling White Men. — Gen. Harrison has been frequently charged with voting for an act 
to sell white men for debt. In a letter to the editor of the Richmond Whig, he denies the foul 
imputation, as follows : — 

" Such an act would hate been REPUGNANT TO MY FEELINGS and in DI- 
RECT CONFLICT WITH MY OPINIONS, public and private, THnorcH the whole 
COURSE oE iMT LIFE. NO SUCH PROPOSITION WAS EVER SUBMITTED TO 
THE LEGISLATURE OF OHIO — none such would for a moment have been enteh- 

TAINED Noa would ANT SON OF HERS HATE DABED TO PROPOSE IT." 

16 



THE LIFE 

OF 

GEN. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. 

From the 8th No. of Huddy ^ Duval's U. S. Military Magazine. 

The genius of American institutions, opposed as it is to tliat restless spirit 
of conquest which actuated and convulsed so many nations of antiquity, the 
middle ages, and even a later day, would seem to be unfriendly to the develope- 
ment of military talents. Neither the requirements of a superabundant popu- 
lation, nor any of the usual incentives to an increase of territory, always flagrant 
in aged and despotic countries, have yet arisen to counteract the anti-military 
tendencies of our form of government and social polity. Our wars, conse- 
quently, have been few in number and always of a defensive character ; but 
what they have been deficient in extent and frequency, they have unfortu- 
nately made up in severity and duration. If our armies of volunteers and 
militia could not be compared in point of numbers and discipline, to the well- 
appointed hosts of imperial France or haughty England, they have proved that 
their valor was as unyielding as those of the bravest regulars with whom they 
have come in conflict. If, until a comparatively recent j. period, our oflicers 
have been devoid of that rigid schooling, the benefits of which are partially en- 
joyed by even the humblest subjects of some European nations, the laurels 
they have won on many a hard-fought field against the mercenary legions of, 
Britain and the savage hordes on our frontier, attest the prowess and mUitary 
capacity of our people. The historians of few countries, numbering even cen- 
turies of existence, can point their readers to a list of such illustrious instances 
of consummate heroism as are furnished in the annals of the arms of our infant 
republic. The narratives of valor may be hunted in vain for examples of truer 
elevation of soul, or more dauntless gallantry under the most appalling emer- 
gencies. The glory of their achievements is the property of the nation. The 
sun of their fame, unobscured by the mists of malice or envy, will irradiate the 
path of the future defenders of our country. Their bright example is the rich- 
est heritage we can bequeath to posterity. We need then offer no apology to 
the readers of this magazine, for devoting a few pages to a succinct and impar- 
tial elucidation of the military career of one of our most valiant and, we may 
add. successful generals. 

William Henry Harrison was born in Virginia, in the year 1773, and was 
the third son of Benjamin Harrison, one of the most distinguished patriots of 
the Revolution, a member of the Continental Congress, one of the signers of 
the Declaration of Independence, and subsequently governor of Virginia. This 
venerated sage and statesman died in 1791, when his son William was about 
eighteen years of age. Hence the early period of the life of General Harrison, 
when impressions are the deepest and most indelible, was passed in the school 
of patriotism and with the brightest models before him. Soon after the death 
of his father, and the completion of his education within the venerable walls o'' 
b2 3 17 



18 THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 

Hampden Sydney College, he was induced, by the advice of his friends, to re- 
move to Philadelphia, and devote himself to the study of medicine, under the 
guardianship of Robert Morris, the celebrated financier of the Revolution. 
About that period, however, a general excitement and alarm prevailed along the 
whole frontier bordering on the Ohio River, produced by the depredations and 
murders committed by the Indians. Young Harrison, true to the stock from 
which he sprang, participating in the patriotic feelings of the times, resolved, 
with the consent of his friends, among whom was the immortal Washington, an 
intimate associate of his father, to enter the service of his country. Some idea 
may be formed of the posture of affairs at that period, and of the character of 
the duties he was required to discharge, when it is recollected that it was on the 
4th of November, in the year 1791, that General St. Clair, with an army of 
fourteen hundred men, was defeated at the Miami villages, by the confederated 
Indians under the celebrated chief Little Turtle, with the loss of nearly one 
thousand men in killed and wounded, including some of his best officers. In 
November, 1791, when but eighteen years of age, he received his first appoint- 
ment as ensign from General Washington, and hastened to join his regiment, 
which was then stationed at Fort Wasliington. He arrived at that post a few 
days after the disastrous defeat of St. Clair to which we have just adverted. A 
new army was soon after raised by the government, and the command given to 
General Wayne, who had earned a brilliant reputation for skill and gallantry 
during the Revolutionary War. This army, which was called Wayne's Legion, 
was organised at Pittsburgh in the summer of 1792; and in the ensuing No- 
vember it left that place and went into winter quarters at Legionville, on the 
Ohio, twenty-two miles below Pittsburgh. In February, 1792, Harrison was 
promoted by General Washington to a lieutenancy, and soon after he joined 
Wayne's Legion. His boldness, energy, and strict attention to discipline, very 
early attracted the notice of his observant commander-in-chief, himself a chival- 
rous and fearless soldier and rigid disciplinarian — and General Wayne not long 
after selected him as one of his aides-de-camp. 

These minute details are worthy of especial regard, as illustrative of the high 
estimate entertained of Harrison at a very early age and in trying times, by 
the most discerning soldiers and patriots of the country. During the whole of 
the ensuing campaigns — which were not less distinguished for the arduous ser- 
vices which they entailed, than for their results, which conferred so much glory 
on our arms and gave peace and tranquillity to the frontier. Lieutenant Harri- 
son acted as aid to General Wayne. His bravery and gallant conduct through- 
out, were such, that he was repeatedly officially noticed in terms of the highest 
encomium. In his despatches to the Secretary of War, after the bloody and 
desperate battle of Miami, in which the confederated Indians and their allies 
were totally routed, General Wayne, in mentioning those whose fearlessness 
made them conspicuous on that occasion, remarked, 

" My faithful and gallant aides-de-camp. Captains De Butts and T. Lewis, and Lieu- 
tenant Harrison, with the adjutant-general. Major Mills, rendered the most essential 
service by communicating my orders in every direction, and by their conduct and bra- 
very exciting the troops to press for victory." 

Soon after this battle, in July, 1797, Lieutenant Harrison received from the 
President, as some slight recompense for his gallantry, the commission of cap- 
tain, and was placed in command of Fort Washington — the most important 
military post on the western frontier. He was then but twenty-four years of 
age ! 

Captain Harrison remained in the army till the close of the year 1707, 
when, as there was no longer an opportunity of serving his country in the field, 
he resigned his commission. He was almost immediately after appointed by 
the president, secretary and, ex officio, lieutenant-governor of tlie north-western 



THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 19 

territory, which then embraced the immense extent of country lying nortli-west 
of the Ohio river. In this post, which was of a civil nature altogether, he 
rendered himself so popular by his talents, urbanity, and propriety of deport- 
ment, that he was elected by the people of the territory their lirst delegate to 
Conorress, when but twenty-six years of age, and took his seat in the house of 
representatives at the commencement of the first session, in December, 1799, 
His first efforts were directed to the accomplishment of an object in which the 
vital interests of his constituents, particularly the poorer classes of them, were 
concerned. This was to procure a change in the mode of disposing of the 
public lands, which from the size of the tracts sold, and places of sale, put 
it out of the power of the indigent emigrants to purchase them; throwing, as 
a natural consequence, the whole business into the hands of speculators, and 
thus retarding the setdement of the country. By dint of his great talents, 
irrepressible energy, and perseverance, he accomplished the object, notwith- 
standing the opposition which the measure met with from the wealthy capitalists 
of the country and some of the ablest members of Congress. 

At this session of Congress tlie northwestern territory, which had hitherto 
embraced all the country lying on the northwest of the Ohio, including Ohio, 
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and what are now called the territories of Wis- 
consin and Iowa, was divided into two parts ; so much of it as comprised the 
present states of Ohio and Michigan, retained the old name, and the rest, com- 
prising the immense extent of country lying northwest of it, was made a 
separate territory and received the title of Indiana, Tiie act of Congress, 
which was approved by the president on the 7th of May, 1800, became a law 
on that day, and on the 12tli of May, five days afterwards. Captain Harrison 
was nominated by him to the senate as the first governor of Indiana territory, 
in compliance with the earnest and express wishes of the people of the territory. 
On the following day the nomination was confirmed by the senate,* 

If we reflect for a moment on the nature of the powers which were con- 
ferred by this appointment, and the delicate situation in which he was placed, 
from his immediate connexion with the Indians, fickle, treacherous, and prone 
to war as they were ; it is difficult to conceive a stronger proof of the estima- 
tion in which he was held, and the high opinion entertained of his civil and 
military talents, by the president, the senate, and the people of the territory. 
By this appointment, he became commander-in-chief of the militia, with the 
right of selecting all officers in it below the rank of general-ofiicers. Before 
the organization of the general assembly, he was to appoint sucli magistrates 
and other civil functionaries, in each county and township as he should deem 
necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, and, together with the 
judges, to adopt and publish such laws of the original states, both criminal and 
civil, as they should think proper and suited to the circumstances of the district, 
possessing himself alone the power to lay out the counties and townships. 
After the organization of the general assembly, he was to form part of it, 
having an absolute veto upon all their proceedings, with the power to convene, 
prorogue or dissolve the assembly, when he thought it expedient. The term 
of office was limited by law to three years, and at the expiration of any one 
term, unless his conduct had been perfectly satisfactory to t!ie government, 
and to the people over whom he presided, he might have been suspended 
without the harshness of removal from office. Yet he administered the civil 
government of that immense territory, possessing almost absolute powers over 
its diversified concerns and interests, for the period of thirteen years, from 

* " I nominate William Henry Harrison to be governor of the Indiana territory, from 
the 13th day of May next, when his present commission as governor will expire. 

Signed, Thomas Jefferson." 

Executive Journal of the United States Senate, page 441. 



20 THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON 

1800 to 1813. being reappointed twice by Mr. Jefferson, in 1803 and 1806. 
and once by Mr. Madison in 1809. He is thus seen to have received the 
strongest marks of confidence and approbation, from all the different presidents, 
from the people of the territory, and from four senates of the United States. 

In the year 1809, the house of representatives of Indiana territory unani- 
moiisly requested his I'e-appointment in the following terms extracted from the 
resolution : — 

"They cannot forbear recommending to and requesting of the president and senate, 
most earnestly, in their own name, and in the name of their constituents, the appoint- 
ment of their present governor, William Henry Harrison,, because he possesses the 
good wishes and affection of a great majority of his fellow-citizens ; — because they 
believe him sincerely attached to the Union, the prosperity of the United States, and 
the administration (Mr. Madison's) of its government; — because they believe him, in 
a superior degree, capable of promoting the interests of the territory, from long 
experience and laborious attention to its concerns, from his influence with the Indians, 
and wise and disinterested management of that department, and because they have 
confidence in his virtues, talents, and republicanism." 

But in addition to these extensive powers, he was, in the year 1803, appointed 
by Mr. Jefferson, with the advice and consent of the senate, 

" Commissioner to enter into any treaties which may be necessary with any Indian 
tribes northwest of the Ohio, and within the territory of the United States, on the 
subject of their boundaries or lands."* 

Under the power thus given, during the period of his civil administration as 
governor, he alone negotiated thirteen treaties with different tribes, for extin- 
guishing their titles to lands within that extensive and fertile region. Nearly 
the entire period of his civil administration was a continued series of treaties; 
and his unsurpassed efficiency as a negotiator and diplomatist, is amply esta- 
blished in his able and voluminous correspondence with President Jeflerson, 
and in the treaties themselves. By one of these he procured the extingnish- 
ment of the tide to the largest tract of country ever ceded at one time by the 
Indians, since the settlement of North America. It embraced upwards of 
fifty-one millions of acres ! 

IJntil the year 1811, Governor Harrison had been able from his knowledge 
of the Indian character and skilful management of their affitirs, to keep his 
savage neighbours in clieck, and to preserve the peace and security of tlie 
frontier settlements. About this period, however, our affairs witii England 
drawing to a crisis, the British traders availed themselves of the natural turbu- 
lence and love of plunder which characterize the Indians, to instigate them to 
acts of violence and depredation, and actually furnished them with arms and 
equipments for war. To their influence was added that of the Shawnese 
prophet, 01-li-wa-chica, the brother of the celebrated Tecumseh ; and tliese 
deluded tribes began to renew those scenes of desolation and blood, in the 
conflagration of dwellings and the murder of whole famdies, which had before 
drawn down upon them the vengeance of the American people. In October, 
1811, Governor Harrison with the troops under his command, proceeded to the 
Prophet's town, on the Wabash, at the junction with the Tippecanoe, for the 
purpose of restoring tranquillity. After a march of thirty days, he arrived 

* "I nominate William Henry Harrison, of Indiana, to be a commissioner, to enter 
into ANY treaty or treaties which may be necessary, with any Indian tribes, northwest 
of the Ohio, and within the territory of the United States, on the subject of the 
boundary, or lands. 

Signed, Thomas Jefferson." 

The message containing these nominations was transmitted to the senate of the 
United States, on the third day of February, 1803, read on the 4th, and on the 8th 
taken up for consideration, when the nomination of William Henry Harrison, above 
recited, received the unanimous sanction of that honourable body. 



THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 21 

there on the Gth of November, ana the Indians, as usual, met him with pro- 
testations of friendship, and the promise to hokl a council on the following day 
for the settlement of all complaints. Before the following day, however, in the 
gloom of a dark, cold, and cloudy night, they assailed his camp with savage 
yells. But they did not (as they expected) find him unprepared. The army 
had been encamped in the order of battle, and the troops reposed with their 
clothes and accoutrements on, and their arms at their sides. The officers had 
been ordered to sleep in the same manner, and 

" It was the governor's invariable practice to be ready to mount liis horse at a 
moment's warning. Oa the morning of the 7th, he arose at a quarter before four 
o'clock, and sat by the fire conversing with the gt^ntlenien of his fnnily, who were 
reclining on their blankets waiting for the signal, which in a few minutes would have 
been gis'en for the troops to turn out. The orderly drvimmer had been already roused 
for the reveillee. The moon had risen, but afforded little light, in consequence of 
being overshadowed by clouds, which occasionally discharged a drizzling rain. At 
this moment the attack commenced. A desperate conflict ensued, in which the 
Indians manifested uncommon ferocity, but which ended in their total defeat; and they 
abandoned their town, leaving behind them their provisions and almost every thing 
they possessed."* 

The battle of Tippecanoe was one of the most spirited and best fought 
actions recorded in the annals of our Indian \vars. The assailants and their 
weapons were fully equal in numbers and quality to the Americans, and the 
Indians, contrary to their usual custom, fought hand to hand, and with the 
fiercest bravery. No soldier in the ranks at this battle was exempt from 
dj^nger, but no man encountered more personal peril than Governor Harrison 
himself — well known to many of the Indians, and the object of their peculiar 
attack, — his fearless and unshrinking exposure, makes it appear almost a 
miracle that he should have escaped unwounded. In referring to the coolness 
and intrepidity of Governor Harrison on this occasion, we cannot refrain from 
making the following extracts from a journal published in 1816, by a private 
soldier, who fought in this battle, and could have had no interested motives for 
his publication. — " General Harrison," he says, " received a shot through the 
rim of his hat. In the heat of the action his voice was frequently heard, and 
easily distinguished, giving his orders, in the same calm, cool, and collected 
manner, with which Ave had been used to receive them on drill or parade. 
The confidence of the troops in the general was unlimited." The same 
intelligent writer in speaking of Harrison's kindness to the soldiers, and his 
influence over them, remarks: — " He appeared not disposed to detain any man 
against his inclination ; being endowed by nature with a heart as humane as 
brave, in his frequent addresses to the militia, his eloquence was formed to 
persuade ; appeals were made to reason as well as to feeling, and never were 
they made in vain." The president, Mr. Madison, in communicating to Con- 
gress, December 13, 1811, the despatches and intelligence of this splendid 
achievement of western valour, thus expressed himself: — 

" While it is deeply to be lamented, that so many valuable lives have been lost in 
the action which took place on the 7th ult., Congress will see with satisfaction the 
dauntless spirit and fortitude victoriously displayed by every description of troops 
engaged, as well as the collected firmness which distinomisbed their commander, on 
an occasion requiring the utmost exertion of valour and discipline." 

The legislature of Indiana issued an address to Governor Harrison, of which 
the Odlowiug is an extract : — 

"The house of representatives of Indiana territory, in their own name, and in behalf 
©f their constituents, most cordially reciprocate the congfratulations of j^our excellency 
on the glorious result of the late sanguinary conflict with the 8hawnese propliet, and 

* See McAfee's History of the Last War, published in 1816, from which this de- 
ecription is taken; pp. 29 — 36, 



23 THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 

the tribes of Indians confederated with him ; where we see displayed in behalf of our 
country, not only the consummate abilities of the general, but the heroism of the 
man; and when we take into view the benefits which must result to that country 
I'rom those exertions, we cannot for a moment withhold our meed of applause." 

Tlie chivalry and daring of General Harrison, not less than his great 
abilities and skill displayed as a commander on the occasion, were thus referred 
to in a joint resolution of the legislature of Kentucky, notwithstanding the loss 
that stale had sustained in some of her most valuable citizens: — 

" Resolved, that in the late campaign against the Indians on the Wabash, Governor 
W. H. Harrison has, in the opinion of this legislature, behaved like a Hero, a Patriot^ 
and a General ,- and that for his cool, deliberate, skilful and gallant conduct in the late 
battle of Tippecanoe, he deserves the warmest thanks of the nation." 

The gallant Colonel Daviess, who fell at Tippecanoe, thus speaks of Gene- 
ral Harrison in a letter written a short time before the battle : — 

" I make free to declare that I have imagined there were two military men in the 
West, and General Harrison is the first of the two." 

These are but a few of the many eulogies pronounced upon his achievements 
before and on the glorious field of Tippecanoe. 

On the 18lh of June, 1812, war was declared by the United States against 
Great Britain, and Governor Harrison was in that year appointed a brigadier- 
general in the regular army. In the course of the year. General Hull, to whom 
had been confided the command of the northwestern army, made a shameful 
surrender at Detroit, putting the British in possession of his whole force, and 
of a large region of country. This mortifying and disastrous event gave nevr 
zeal and hopes to the savage foe ; the intelligence was spread with rapidity, 
from the Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and the torch of war was lighted ahnig 
the whole frontier of the United States. In the surprise, alarm, grief, and in- 
dignation of the moment, public sentiment pointed to General Harrison as the 
man who alone was equal to the exigencies of the occasion, and accordingly to 
him was confided, as commander-in-chief, the difficult and dangerous duty of 
repairing the mischiefs which had been inflicted upon the country by the base 
conduct of Hull. This appointment was conferred upon him by Mr. Madison, 
at the earnest request and recommendation of the people of the West, and par- 
ticularly of the gallant Governor Shelby and Colonel Richard M. Johnson of 
Kentucky, who had served under him. Before this, however, a successful 
effort had been made by a jealous rival of General Harrison to have General 
Winchester appointed to this command. McAflee, in his history of the Last 
War, remarks, 

" The troops had confidently expected that General Harrison would be confirmed in 
the command ; and by this time he had completely received the confidence of every 
soldier in the army. He was affable and courteous in his manners, and indefatig-able 
in his attention to every branch of business. His soldiers seemed to anticipate the 
wishes of their general ; it was only necessary to be known that he wished something 
done, and all were anxious to risk their lives in its accomplishment. His men would 
have fought better and suffered more with him, than with any other general in ./Irncrica; 
and whatever might have been the merits of General Winchester, it was certainly an 
unfortunate arrangement which transferred the command to him at this moment. It is 
absolutely necessary that militia soldiers should have great confidence in their general, 
if they are required either to obey with promptness, or to fight with bravery. The 
men were at last reconciled to march under Winchester, but with a confident belief 
that Harrison would be placed in the command ; which accordingly was done, as soon 
as the War Department was informed of his appointment in the Kentucky troops, and 
his popularity in the western country."* 

* A caucus was called on the subject of the appointment. " At this caucus, com- 
posed of General Shelby, the Honourable Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Re- 
presentatives in Congress, the Honourable Thomas Todd, Judge of the Federal Court, 
&c. &c., it was unanimously resolved to give Harrison a brevet commission of Major- 



THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 23 

A letter was addressed to General Harrison by the immortal Perry, about the 
time of the appointment of the former to the command, from which we make 
the foUowuig extract. 

" You know what has been my opinion as to the future commander-in-chief of tlie 
army. I pride myself not a little, I assure you, on seeing my predictions so jiear beincr 
verified ; yes, my dear friend, I expect soon to hail you as tlie chief who is to redeem 
the honour of our arms in the North." 

In a letter addressed to General Harrison by Colonel Richard M. Johnson, 
dated July 4th, 1813, assigning the reasons which influenced him and the 
brave Kentuckians under his command, to join the army of General Harrison, 
we find the following remarks : — 

" Two great objects induced us to come ; first, to be at the regaining of our own 
territory and Detroit, and at tiie taking of Maiden ; and secondly, to serve under an 
officer in whom we have confidence. We would not have engaged in the service 
without such a prospect — we did not want to serve under drunlvards, old grannies, 
cowards, nor traitors, but under one (General Harrison) who has proved himself to be 
wise, prudent, and brave." 

The first efforts of General Harrison were to assemble and organize a suita- 
ble army. In May, 1813, he sustained a siege for thirteen days, at Fort Meigs, 
conducted by a superior combined force of British troops and Indians under 
General Proctor and Tecumseh, from which they were repulsed with signal 
success. During the siege, 1800 shells and balls were fired upon the fort, as 
well as a continual discharge of small arms maintained. Colonel M'Kune of 
Ohio, a veteran of the last war, states, that, 

" In the first attack by the British upon Fort Meigs, the Americans fought outside 
the fort. I commanded at one of the gates of the fort, and personally helped General 
Harrison over the pickets, and saw him commanding his men in person and on foot, 
regardless of the most imminent danger." 

McAffee minutely describes the brilliant sortie of Fort Meigs, in his History 
of the Last War, to which we are compelled by our narrow limits to refer the 
reader for many interesting particulars. 

In the fall of the year 1813, the glorious victory of Perry on Lake Erie 
having given to the Americans the command of the lake, General Harrison de- 
termined to invade Canada, and carry the war into the enemy's country. His 
troops were accordingly transported to the Canadian shore by the victorious 
fleet of Perry, and having landed below Maiden, and taken possession of that 
place, he detached a force to take possession of Detroit, and then pursued his 
flying enemy to the banks of the Thames. Here, on the 5th of October, 1813, 
he found General Proctor, with upwards of GOO regulars, and 2000 Indians 
under Tecumseh, posted to receive him. They occupied a narrow strip of 
land, with the river on one side and a swamp on the other; their left resting 
upon the river, supported by artillery, their right upon the swamp, covered by 
the whole Indian force. Occupying thus the whole space, a more extended 
front could not be presented to them than their own, and no advantage taken of 
superiority of numbers, if any existed. By a bold, brilliant, and original 
manffiuvre, which displayed the splendid military genius of the commander, 
the fate of the battle was instantly decided : General Harrison ordered the 
regiment of mounted infantry to be drawn up in close column, and at full 
speed to charge the enemy. The shock was irresistible. The British troops 
gave way on all sides, and 600 regulars, including 25 officers, laid down their 
arms and became prisoners of war. The Indians continued to fight with great 
and desperate courage, but were finally routed, and their celebrated Chief 

General in the Kentucky militia, and authorize him to take command. The appoint- 
ment received the general approbation of the people, and was hailed by the troops 
of Cincinnati with the most enthusiastic joy." — McJfee's History of the Last War. 
p. 108. 



M THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 

Tecumseh* slain on the field. In this decisive victory, the venerable Governor 
Shelby, a hero of the revolution, commanded, under General Harrison, the 
Kentucky volunteers; General Cass, late Secretary of War, and our present 
Minister in France, and Commodore Perry, acted as the Aides of General 
Harrison. All the official papers of General Proctor were taken, and he him- 
self escaped with great difficulty from his pursuers ; property to the amount of 
a million of dollars was captured, and three pieces of brass cannon, trophies 
of the Revolutionary War, which had been taken from the British at Saratoga 
and York, and surrendered by Hull at Detroit, were recovered. This brilliant 
and decisive achievement, in which the American army was composed of vo- 
lunteers, mounted infanti-y, and only 120 regulars, was haded in every quarter 
of the country with the liveliest demonstrations of joy and gratitude, and was 
celebrated from Maine to Louisiana, in most of our cities and chief towns, by 
illuminations. It at once put a period to the strife of arms in that quarter. 
The din of war was hushed, the husbandman returned to his plough, and the 
peaceful occupations of civil life were resumed. In referring to the official 
account of the action, Thomas Ritchie, the able editor of the Richmond In- 
quirer, remarked : — 

" General Harrison's detailed letter tells us of every thing we wish to know about the 
officers except himself. He does justice to every one but to Harrison, the world must 
therefore do justice to the man who was too modest to be just to himself.''^ 

In the language of the Honourable Langdon Cheves, of South Carolina, on the 
floor of Congress, 

" This victory of Harrison was such as would have secured to a Roman general, in 
the best days cf the Republic, the honors of a triumph. He put an end to the war in 
the uppermost Canada." 

The annual message of President Madison addressed to Congress, December 
7th, 1813, contained the following allusion to the victory of the Thames: — 

" The success on Lake Erie having opened a passage to the territory of the enemy, 
General Harrison, commanding the north-western army, transferred the war thither; 
and rapidly pursuing the hostile troops, fleeing with their savage associates, forced a 
general action, which quickly terminated in the capture of the British, and the disper- 
sion of the savage force. This result is signally honourable to Major General Harrison, 
by whose military talents it was achieved." 

Similar language was employed to express the universal joy at this result, by 
most of the governors of the different States, in proclamations issued by the 
chief magistrates of the various cities, by Congress, and the several state legis- 
tures. Governor Snyder, of Pennsylvania, in his annual message to the Le- 
gislature, dated December 10th, 1813, remarked, 

" The blessings of thousands of v/omen and children rescued from the scalping knife 
of the ruthless savage of the wilderness, and from the still more savage Proctor, rest 
on Harrison and his gallant army." 

Here ends the military career of General Harrison : and that title and that 
character which was accepted at the hands of Mr. Madison, when duty and the 
circumstances of the times required it, was cheerfully laid aside, when there 
was no longer a patriotic motive for its retention. His determination to with- 
draw from the army was in consequence of the jealousy of General Armstrong, 
Secretary of War, who, to the surprise of the nation, assigned him services far 
removed from any post of danger, and inferior to that which he had a right to 
expect. On learning the determination of General Harrison to resign his com- 

* " Tecumseh, who was shot at the battle of the Thames, was about forty-six years 
ef age, of the Shawnese tribe, erect and lofty in his deportment, with a penetrating 
eye, and stood six feet high ; of stern visage, artful, insidious in preparing enterprises, 
and bold in their execution. Among the Indians he was justly termed the ' Boldest 
Warrior of the West.' " 



THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 25 

mission, the venerable and gallant Governor Shelby of Kentucky, who had 
served under him, addressed a letter, dated May 18tli, 1814, to President Madi- 
son, urging him not to accept the resignation, but the President being on a visit 
to Virginia, did not receive it before General Armstrong, who was eager for 
General Harrison to quit a service in which he was winning such imperishable 
laurels, had assumed the responsibility of ofRciallj^ acquiescing in his withdrawal 
from the army. The following is an extract from Governor Shelby's letter to 
Mr. Madison. 

" I feel no hesitation to declare to you, that I believe General Harrison to hp one of 
the first military characters lever knew ; and in addition to this, he is capable of making 
greater personal exertions than any officer with whom I have served. I doubt not but 
it will hereafter be found that the command of the north-western army, and the vari- 
ous duties attached to it, has been one of the most arduous and difTicult tasks ever as- 
signed to any officer in the United States." 

General McArthur, who had also served under General Harrison, addressed 
his friend and old commander on the subject, in which he remarked : — 

" You, sir, stand the highest with the militia of this State of any general in the ser- 
vice, and I am confident that no man can fight them to so great advantage ; and I think 
their extreme solicitude may be the means of calling you to this frontier." 

The following resolution was passed by both branches of Congress, and ap- 
proved 4lh of April, 1819. 

" Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, That the thanks of Congress he, and they are hereby 
presented to Major-General JVillinm Henry Harrison and Isaac Shelby, late governor of 
Kentucky, and through them to the officers and men tinder their command, for their 
gallantry and good conduct in defeating the combined British and Indian forces under 
Major-General Proctor, on the Thames, in Upper Canada, on the 5tb day of October, 
1813, capturing the British army, with their baggage, camp equipafje, and artillery; 
and that the President of the United States be requested to cause two Gold Medals to 
be struck, emblematical of this triumph, and presented to General Harrison and Isaac 
Shelby, late governor of Kentucky." 

We cannot better illustrate the estimate of General Harrison, formed by one 
who knew him well, having served under him in several campaigns, than by 
making the following extract from a speech delivered in the House of Represen- 
tatives of the United States, March 2d, 1831, by the Honourable Richard M. 
Johnson, of Kentucky, now Vice-President, on the bill for the relief of J. C 
Harrison, deceased. 

"One of the securities is General William H. Harrison — and who is General Harri- 
son 1 The son of one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, who sp^^nt 
the greater part of his large fortune in redeeming the pledge be then gave of " his for- 
tune, life and sacred honour," to secure the liberty of his country. 

Of the career of General Harrison I need not speak — the history of the West is his 
history. For forty years he has been identified with its interests, its perils, and its 
hopes. Universally beloved in the walks of peace, and distinguished by his ability in 
the councils of his country, he has been yet more illustriously distinguished in the 
field. 

During the late war he was longer in active service than any other general officer ; 
he was perhaps oftener in action than any one of them, and never sustained a defeat." 

In the year 1816, General Harrison was elected to Congress from the State 
of Ohio. In this station he served with great distinction, until the year 1819, 
when he was chosen a member of the state Senate. In 1824, he was elected 
a Senator of the United States, by the Legislature of Ohio, and continued to 
serve with eminent ability in that distinguished body, performing the duties of 
chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs in the place of General Jackson, 
who had resigned, until the year 1828, when he was appointed Envoy Extra- 
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Colombia. Since the 
period of his return to the United States in 1829, he has continued to pursue 
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26 THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 

the elevating though laborious occupation of a husbandman on the banks of the 
Ohio. 

General Harrison is now about sixty-six years of age, but from his active and 
temperate habits, he enjoys in their full vigour his mental and physical powers. 
In his manners he is plain, frank, and unassuming; in his disposition, cheerful, 
kind, and generous. With opportunities of amassing wealth, during his lono- 
administration of Indian affairs, while governor of Indiana, unless restrained 
by the most delicate and scrupulous integrity ; yet he came out of the service 
of his country with diminished means. During the whole period of his mili- 
tary services, amidst all the privations, toils, and sufferings of a war carried on 
in an uninhabited country, covered with swamps and woods, he never caused a 
soldier to be punished. Yet no General ever commanded the confidence, admi- 
ration, and obedience of the militia to a greater extent. When asked by a fel- 
low-officer how he managed to gain the control over his troops which he pos- 
sessed, he answered : 

" By treating them with affection and kindness — by always recollecting that they 
were my fellow-citizens, whose feelings I was bound to respect, and sharing on every 
occasion the hardships they were obliged to undergo." 

In September, 1829, while residing at Bogota, as Minister Plenipotentiary of 
the United States to the Republic of Colombia, he addressed a letter to General 
Bolivar, at that time President of the Republic, but who it was feared intended 
to subvert the republican government and assume despotic power. The object 
was to dissuade him from taking so fatal a step, and the whole letter is replete 
with the soundest views and the noblest sentiments. We thus perceive that 
the influence of the school in which he was reared has not been lost upon him. 
Born and bred among the heroes and sages of the Revolution, — drawing his prin- 
ciples fresh from the fountain of American liberty, his whole life has been spent 
in the service of his country. But great and brilliant as his military services 
have been, they did not excel his civil labours in duration or importance. Out 
of a period of thirty-seven years of public employment, eight or nine have been 
spent in bearing arms amidst the perils and privations of Indian and British 
warfare, but upwards of twenty in high and responsible offices of civil trust. 
In the eloquent language of one of his neighbours, " he is the son of one of the 
Signers of the Declaration of Independence — a distinguished patriot of the Re- 
volution; enrolled at nineteen in the ranksof his countr)''s defenders; the favour- 
ite aide-de-camp of Wayne ; one of the victors of Miami ; the trusted com- 
mander of the important out-post of Fort Washington; the secretary to the 
north-western Territory ; its first delegate to Congress ; the author of the bene- 
ficent land system, by which honest settlers were encouraged, and speculators 
rebuked; the popular governor of Indiana: the overthrower of Tecuniseh and 
his British allies ; the able diplomatist at the treaty of Vincennes, the Hero of 
Tippecanoe; the gallant conqueror of Upper Canada, and as gallantly victori 
ous at the Thames ; a member of Congress in 1823, and a senator in 1824, in 
which station he advocated the reform of the militia system, and the appoint- 
ment of cadets of the sons of those who die in defence of their country ; and 
also the prompt adjustment of the claims of the surviving officers and soldiers 
of the Revolution ; was minister to Colombia in 1828 ; and the author of the 
renowned letter to Bolivar." 



TIPPECANOE ALMANAC. 



The following address, which immedi- 
ately succeeded the biography of General 
Harrison, in the United States Military 
Magazine, was written by Thoinias Fitnam, 
p]sQ., a patriotic son of the " Emerald 
Isle," who has always been a Democrat, 
a Jackson man, and until recently a warm 
advocate of Mr. Van Buren, Init now an 
enthusiastic supporter of General Harri- 
son, whom, with so many thousands of 
his warm-hearted countrymen, he consi- 
ders a better and purer republican than 
the present chief magistrate of the nation. 

TO GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY 
HARRISON. 

BY THOMAS FITNAM, ESQ. 

Like the sun in its transit round heaven's 
great arch. 
Dispelling the gloom which obscures 
all beneath ; 
Thou, sir, in the van of our army didst 
march , 
Triumphantly forcing our foes to retreat. 

For courage and worth, virtue, honour, and 
sense. 
Thine standest the first mid illustri- 
ous names, 
Oh ! say, where's the man, if he could, 
would dispense 
With thy feat at Fort Meigs, or that of 
the Thames 1 

Those wreaths o'er thy brow which thy 
talents had gain'd 
On the field — in the Senate, are justly 
thy due ; 
They're free from those crimes with which 
others are stain'd, 
For they bear the bright impress of 
" Tippecanoe !" 

All those may feel proud who high sta- 
tions now hold. 
As gifts from the people, through party 
conferr'd ; 
But never! oh ! never ! let freemen be told, 
That through party alone should be 
claimants preferr'd. 



Then show me the soldier wl ose bosoni 
responds 
To th'ennobling emotions of national 
pride; 
That would, if his country were threat- 
en'd with bonds. 
Be seen not contending with thee, side 
by side. 

I'd chain down the traitorous serf to the 
earth — 
I'd stamp on his forehead the brand of 
a slave ; 
His kind, to like offspring, should never 
give birth. 
But all should descend to one ignoble 
grave. 

Philadelphia, October I2th, 1839. 



Opinions of the Democracy during iho 
war, before the polilicnl paint brush had 
been employed to sully the fair fame of the 
brave and victorious defender of his coun- 
try. 

TAMxMANY HALL AND GENERAL 
HARRISON. 

The following condensed account of a 
dinner given to the Hero of the Thames at 
Tammany Hall, when he was on his way 
to Washington from the scones of his vic- 
tories, is copied from the New York Na- 
tional Advocate, of December 4th, 1813, 
one of the organs of the war party. He 
was then regarded as one of the fathers of 
his countr}^ 

" Dinner in honour of General Hnrrism%. 
— A public dinner was given at Tamma- 
fiy Hall on Wednesday last, under the di- 
rection of the Republican General Commit- 
tee of New York, to Major-geru^ral Wil- 
liam H. Harrison. Thecompany assembled 
amounted to about three hundred persons. 
The party was rendered highly interesting 
by the presence of the distinguished officer 
in whose honour it was given, of Governor 
Tompkins, and INIajor-generals Dearborn 
and Hampton, and Judge B. Livingston. 
A great number of the officers of the army 
and navy, and of the volunteer corps of 

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TIPPECANOE ALMANAC. 



Ihis city attended. The venerable patriot, 1 
Oolonel Rutgers, presided. General Smith, ' 
Colonel Swartwout, Alderman Euckmas- 
ter, and Alderman Wendover, assisted as j 
vice-presidents. 

The interior of the Hall was decorated 
with more than forty national flags and 
inilitar}'" standards, disposed with great 
taste and effect, under the direction of Mr. 
Holland. Two elegant transparencies, 
from the pen of that gentleman, adorned the 
walls of the upper and lower ends of the 
room. The one represented General Harri- 
son receiving the submission of the savage 
allies of ' the defenders of our faith,' who 
were surrendering their weapons and the 
presents received from the British, to the 
conqueror, and offering their squaws and 
papooses as hostages of their fidelity. 
The other exhibited the American Eagle, 
standing on a rock in Lake Erie, and 
proudly expanding its wings over its wa- 
ters. From his beak proceeded a scroll 
inscribed ' E Pluribiis Unum,' a view 
of the bank and distant waters of the 
Lake filled the perspective. The tout en- 
semble produced by the flags, the paintings, 
and a profusion of lights, was singularl)'^ 
picturesque and beautiful. 

On the exterior of the Hall was placed 
a very elegant transparency, also from the 
pen of Mr. Holland, hi the foreground, 
several Indian chiefs were exhibited in 
postures of submission, imploring the cle- 
mency of General Harrison, who was 
pointing to a view in the distance of the 
battle (if the gloriuits tenth nf September, 
This transparency supported another in the 
form of an ellipsis, on which was inscribed 
in large capitals, 

" HARRISON." 

" PERRY." 

" don't give up the ship." 

The transparencies were, we under- 
stand, presented by Mr. Holland ; who 
generously volunteered his services in ar- 
rannfing the decorations of the Hall. 

Five tables, containing sixty covers each, 
and furnished most plentifully with excel- 
lent dishes, were provided for the company. 
Ornamented representations of castles, py- 
ramids, &c. &c., displaying the American 
flag, were arranged on the tables at ap- 
propriate distances, and produced a most 
brilliant and pleasing eilect. Too much 
credit cannot be bestowed on Messrs. 
Mauling and Cozzens, for the elegant and 
liberal manner in which their visitors were 
provided. 

The distinguished guests were received 
at the dining hall, with the music of ' Hail 
Columbia,' from a full and excellent band. 



As soon as the company had assembled 
at the table, an appropriate prayer was 
offered by the Rev. Mr. Van Pelt. A simi- 
lar ceremony was observed at the removal 
of the cloth. 

After dinner the following toasts were 
drank, interspersed with excellent songs 
from gentlemen of the company, and mu- 
sic from the band." , 

The regular toasts then follow, which 
our limited space precludes us from in- 
serting. Among the volunteer toasts are 
those of General Harrison, General Hamp- 
ton and General Dearborn. The one by 
General Harrison is as follows : 

"• By General Harrison. — The freedom 
of the seas and the adoption by our go- 
vernment of the Roman maxim, which se- 
cured to the citizen his inviolability." 
Twelve cheers. 

The account thus proceeds: — "After 
General Dearborn, General Hampton and 
Governor Tompkins had retired, the Presi- 
dent gave the following : 

" Major-general Harrison — The deli- 
verer of our western frontier." Seventeen 
cheers. 

" Major-general Dearborn." Twelve 
cheers. 

"• Major-general Hampton." Twelve 
cheers. 

" Daniel D. Tompkins, Governor of the 
State of New York." Twelve cheers. 



The Democratic Press, of Decemoer 16, 
1813, contains the following leading edito- 
rial paragraph : 

"Major-general Harrison is this evening 
to attend the new theatre in Chestnut 
street, to see Mr. Duff perform Macbeth. 
That the theatre will be crowded, and that 
the GALLANT Harrison will receive the 
applause he so well merits, we have no 
doubt. We regret to learn that the General 
is in so much of a hurry to reach the seat 
of the General Government, that he cannot 
accept the testimonials of nublic approba- 
tion which were intended for him by the 
citizens of Philadelphia." 

Hear the Editor of the Richmond En- 
quirer in 1813, t/ien a Republican, but now 
the venerable advocate of the '■^spoils par- 

From my old Democratic friend, Ritchie, 
1813. 
From the Richmond Enquirer. 
» JOY— JOY IN LONDON NOW !" 
We have not words to express the joy 
which we feel for the Victory of Harri- 
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beat so high. The shouts and cheers of the 
immense multitude which had flocked to 
the Coffee room and Post Office on vSalur- 
day night, on reading the official news from 
Washington, were loud and long heyond 
description. Yesterday the scene of joy 
and congratulation continued. " At eleven 
o'clock, Captain Stephenson's corps of ar- 
tillery fired a grand federal salute. In the 
evening the city was illuminated." 

" And well may we rejoice. Wc rejoice 
not so much for thesplendour of this achieve- 
ment, as for the solid benefils which it will 
produce. Yet in point of splendour we 
have no reason to believe that when we re- 
ceive the official account, we shall receive 
any disappointment. The skill with wiiich 
the plan was contrived for overreaching 
the flying enemy, the small portion of Har- 
rison's force which was able to come up 
and cope with him, consisting principally 
of mounted Rangers under Johnson and 
Ball, and the short period in which the 
victory was achieved, will, we are inclined 
to suspect, impart to it the character of a 
most gallant and brilliant achievement. 
But its suUd effects require no official ac- 
counts to emblazon them ; it gives secu- 
rity to the frontier. Ohio may now sleep 
in security. The trembling mother that 
nightly used to clasp her infant to her 
breast, may rock its cradle in peace." 

Capital, capital. How well the crittur 
wrote in 1813. 



The following anecdotes and incidents 
in the life of General Harrison, have been 
collected from various authentic sources. 



Interesting anecdote of General Harri- 
son's fatlier, on the occasion of signing the 
Declaration of Independence : — 

A curious anecdote is on record, illustra- 
tive of the cheerful temper and intrepidity 
of General Harrison's father, who was 
identified with every turn in the fortunes 
of his country ; at a period when that 
country was convulsed by a struggle in 
which all its rights and very existence 
were involved. Elbridge Gerry, a dele- 
gate from Massachusetts, as slender and 
spare as Mr. Harrison was vigorous and 
portly, stood beside Harrison, whilst sign- 
ing the declaration. Harrison turnpd round 
to him with a smile, as he raised his 
hand from the paper, and said, "When the 
hanging scene comes to be exhibited, I 
shall have all the advantage over von. It 
will be over with me in a minute, but you 
will be kicking in the air half an hour 
after I am sfone." 



Appointment by Thomas Jefferson, in 
1803:— 

The loiiowing is a copy of the message 
of Thomas Jefferson, nominating General 
Harrison sole commissioner to treat with 
the Indians. 

"I nominate William Henry Harrison, of 
Indiana, to be a commissioniir to enter into 
ANY treaty or treaties which may be neces- 
sary, with any Indian tribes, northwest of 
the Ohio, and within the territory of the 
United .States, on the subject of the boun- 
dary, or lands. 

(Signed) Thomas Jefferson." 

The message containing these nomina- 
tions was transmitted to the senate of the 
United States, on the 3d day of February, 
1803, read on the 4th, and on the 8th taken 
up for consideration, when the nomination 
of William Henry Harrison, above recited, 
received the unanimous sanction of that 
honourable body. 

Council of Vincennes, 12th of August, 
1810:— 

In September, 1809, Governor Harrison 
held a council at Fort Wayne, and nego- 
tiated a treaty with the Miamies, Dela- 
vvares, Patawatamies, and Kickapoos, by 
which he succeeded in purchasing from 
those tribes an extensive tract of country 
on both sides of the Wabash, and extend- 
ing up that river more than sixty miles 
above Vincennes. The tribes who owned 
these lands were paid for them by certain 
annuities which they considered a satisfac- 
tory equivalent. 

Tecumseh was absent when this treaty 
was made, and the Prophet, not feeling 
himself interested, had not opposed it; but 
on the return of Tecumseh, some months 
after, both he and his brother expressed 
great dissatisfaction, and even tlireatened 
to put to death all those chiefs who had 
signed the treaty. Hearing this, and anx- 
ious too to ascertain their intentions from, 
themselves, if possible. Governor Harrison 
desp''lchpd messengers to invite them both 
to Vincennes, and to assure th^^m that any 
claims they might have to these lands 
were not affected by the treaty ; but that 
if they would come to V'incenn(!S and ex- 
hibit their pretensions, and they should bo 
found to be valid, the lands would be given 
up or an ample compensation made for 
them. Tecumseh came without his bro- 
ther—and though the governor, having no 
confidence in his good faitli, had requested 
him not to bring with him more than thirty 
warriors, he came with four hundred, com- 
pletely armed. The governor held a coun- 
cil on the 12th of August, 1810, at wliich 
Tecumseh and forty of these warriors were 
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present. The governor was attended by 
th«3 judg-es of the supreme court, several 
ofTicers of the army, Winnemack, a friendly 
chief, and a few unarmed citizens. A ser- 
geant's guard of twelve men was likewise 
placed near him, but as the day vt'as ex- 
ceedingly sultry, and they were exposed 
to the sun, the governor, with his charac- 
teristic humanity, directed them to remove 
to a shaded spot at some distance. 

Tecumseh addressed this council with a 
speech, in which he openly avowed the 
designs of himself and his brother. He 
declared it to be their intention to form a 
coalition of all the red men, to prevent the 
whites from extending their settlements 
farther west. — and to establish the principle 
that the Indian lands belonged in common 
to all the tribes, and could not be sold 
without their united consent. He again 
avowed their intention to put to death all 
the chiefs who had signed the treaty at 
Fort Wayne, yet, with singular inconsis- 
tency, he at the same time denied all inten- 
tion to make war, and declared that all 
those who had given such information to 
the governor, were liars. This was aimed 
particularly at Winnemack, from whom 
the governor had received a timely notice 
of the designs of Tecumseh and his brother. 

Governor Harrison replied to Tecumseh 
in a mild and conciliatory tone, explaining 
the treaty at Fort Wayne, and clearly 
proving that all the chiefs whose tribes had 
any claims upon the land ceded at this time 
to the United States, were present at the 
treaty and had voluntarily signed it — and 
that they had sold these lands for an an- 
nuity which they considered a sufficient 
compensation. The interpreter to the 
Shawnees explained the governor's speech 
to the warriors of that tribe, but when the 
interpreter to the Patawatamies was about 
to begin, Tecumseh interrupted him in a 
rude and insulting manner, using the most 
vehement language and the most violent 
gesticulation, and loudly declaring thot all 
the governor had said was false, and. that 
he and the United States had cheated and 
imposed upon the Indians. As he uttered 
this, his warriors sprung to their feet, and 
began to brandish their tomahawks and 
warclubs, their eyes all fiercely turned 
upon the governor. Harrison rose imme- 
diately and drew his sword. The friendly 
chief Winnemack cocked a pistol with 
which he was armed, and some of the offi- 
cers in attendance drew their weapons and 
stood on the defensive. During this criti- 
cal moment not a word was spoken, until 
the guard came running up, and were about 
to fire on the Indians, when the governor, 
with singular coolness and presence of 
mind, restrained them. He then turned to 



Tecumseh, and calmly but authoritatively 
told him that " he was a bad man — that he 
would hold no further talk with him — and 
that he must now return to his camp, and 
take his departure from the settlements 
without delay." The council was imme- 
diately broken up, and Tecumseh and his 
warriors, awed by the coolness and intre- 
pidity of the governor, withdrew in si- 
lence. 

The next morning Tecumseh, finding 
that he had to deal with a man of firmness 
and undaunted bravery, whom he could 
neither intimidate by his audacious vio- 
lence nor disconcert by his cunning ma- 
nceuvres, solicited another interview with 
the governor, and apologized for the im- 
proprieties he had committed at the council 
the day before. 

Still anxious to conciliate this haughty 
savage, the governor afterwards paid him 
a visit to his own camp, with no other 
attendant than the interpreter. Tecumseh 
received him with courtesy and much at- 
tention ; his uniform kindness and inflexi- 
ble firmness having won the respect of the 
rude warrior; but he still persisted in ri- 
gidly adhering to the policy he had avowed, 
at the council on the preceding day. 

Testimony of General Anthony Wayne,, 
a gallant son of Pennsylvania, in favour 
of LIEUT. W. H. HARRISON, in the 

brilliant and decisive victory oi Maumee : — 
The following is an extract from the offi- 
cial report of Gen. Wayne, of the 27th of 
August, 1794, giving an account of his 
celebrated battle of Maumee: 

" The bravery and conduct of every offi- 
cer belonging to the army, from the gene- 
rals down to the ensigns, merit my highest 
approbation. There were, however, some 
whose rank and situation placed their con- 
duct in a very conspicuous point of view, 
and which I observed with pleasure and 
the most lively gratitude : among whom I 
beg leave to mention Brigadier-general 
Wilkinson, and Colonel Hamtramack, the 
commandants of the right and left wings 
of the legion, whose brave example in- 
spired the troops ; and to these I must add 
the names of my faithful and gallant aids- 
de-camp. Captain De Butts and T. Lewis, 
and Lieutenant Harrison, tvho, with the 
Adjutant-general, Major Mills, rendered 
the niust essential service by communicating 
my orders in every direction, and by their 
conduct and bravery exciting the troops to 
press for victory. ^^ 

W. H. Harrison, as Governor of Indiana 
Territory in 1805 :— 

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administering the affairs of the Indiana 
Territory, was repeatedly approved by the 
legislative council and house of repre- 
sentatives. In 1805, the former, in reply 
to the message of the governor, says : — 

" The confidence which our fellow-citi- 
zens have uniformly had in your adminis- 
tration, has been such that they have hith- 
erto had no reason to be jealous of the un- 
limited power which you possess over our 
legislative proceedings. We, however, 
cannot help regretting that such powers 
have been lodged in the hands of any one, 
especially when it is recollected to what 
dangerous lengths the exercise of those 
powers may be extended." 

The house of representatives, in their 
reply, made the following remarks : — 

" Accept, sir, the thanks of the house of 
representatives for the speech you made to 
both houses of the legislature on the open- 
ing of the present session. In it we dis- 
cern the solicitude for the future happiness 
and prosperity of the territory, which has 
been unilbruily evinced by your past ad- 
ministration." 

The following anecdote must be pecu- 
liarly/ gratifying to the base revilers of their 
country's brave defender : — 

A gentleman who had the anecdote from 
the lips of the late General Tipton himself, 
has been so kind as to commit it to writing 
for our use. — Yeoman. 

During the last presidential contest, the 
military claims of General Harrison were 
freely canvassed, and some of his oppo- 
nents did not scruple to charge him with a 
want of courage. The late General Tip- 
ton, of the United States senate, who had 
served as an ensign at the battle of Tippe- 
canoe, was asked by a friend, " what think 
you, general, of Harrison's courage V 
He replied, " I think him as brave a man 
as ever lived — no one could have behaved 
with more true courage than he did ; while 
the engagement was hottest, and when the 
bullets flew thickest, he was to be seen 
speaking in his ordinary tone, and giving 
command with the greatest precision. The 
company to which I belonged," said Gen- 
eral Tipton, " went into action eighty 
strong, and only twenty survived ; the 
firing upon us was most tremendous. Af- 
ter the general had made his arrangements 
for repelling the attack of the Indians at 
other points, he rode up to where I was, 
and made the following inquiries : 'Where's 
your captain V He is dead, sir. ' Where 
is the first or second-lieutenant ?' They 
are both dead, was the reply. ' Well, 
where is the ensign V He stands before 
you. ' Well, my brave fellow,' said Har- 



rison, ' hold your ground for five minutes 
longer, and all will be safe.' " In fifteen 
minutes the enemy was repulsed on all 
sides. Tipton gallantly led on his few 
remaining comrades to the charge, and vic- 
tory perched upon the American banner- 
As an evidence of Harrison's coolness 
in the midst of danger, General Tipton 
stated, that at the moment the conversation 
ended between himself and General Harri- 
son, and as the horse upon which was 
mounted his aid, the late General Taylor, 
of Indiana, was in the act of turning, a 
rifle ball pierced him through the body, and 
brought him to the ground, catching his 
rider's legs under him. It was a favourite 
black horse of the general's, and he ex- 
claimed. " Ah, is my gallant old black 
gone ! Well, rise and mount again, for 
we have no time to mourn the loss of a 
horse, when so many brave ones are ex- 
posed to a similar fate" — and having re- 
mounted his aid, he dashed into the midst 
of the danger. In a few minutes the battle 



Governor Harrison pardons the negro 
who attempted to assassinate him : — 

Ben, a negro who belonged to the camp, 
deserted and went over to the Indians, and. 
entered into a conspiracy to assassinate 
Governor Harrison, at the time the savages 
commenced their attack. Being appre- 
hended whilst lurking about the governor's 
marquee, waiting an opportunity to accom- 
plish his fell purpose, he was tried by a 
court-martial, and sentenced to be shot. 
The execution of this sentence was delay- 
ed for a short time, in consequence of the 
troops being engaged in fortifying the camp. 
In the mean time, the negro was put into 
Indian stocks, that is, a log split open, 
notches cut in it to fit the culprit's legs, 
the upper piece then laid on, and the whole 
firmly staked into the ground. The gover- 
nor interposed, and pardoned the culprit. 
The reason assigned by the governor for 
his clemency, was as follows : " The fact 
was, that I began to pity him, and could 
not screw myself up to the point of giving 
the fatal order. If he had been out of my 
sight, he would have been executed. The 
poor wretch lay confined before my fire, his 
face receiving the rain that occasionally 
fell, and his eyes constantly turned upon 
me as if imploring mercy. I could not 
withstand the appeal, and I determined ^9 
give him another chance for his life." 

Hear a political opponent : — 

Judge Hall, himself an officer in the 
late war with Great Britain, in speaking 
of the battle of Tippecanoe, says : " Aa 



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far as any commander is entitled to credit, inde- 
pendent of his army, he (General Harrison) 
merits and has received it. He shared every 
danger and fatigue to which his army was ex- 
posed. In the battle he was in more peril than 
any other individual; for he was personally 
know'i to every Indian, and exposed himself 
fearlessly, on horseback, at all points of the at- 
tack, during the whole engagement. Every 
important movement was made by his express 
order." 

Hear the testimony of a gallant and distin- 
guished officer of the late war : — 

General John O'Fallon, now residing in St. 
, Louis, a nephew of General George Rogers 
Clark, and a gallant officer of the last war. 
having distinguished himself at the siege of 
Fort Meigs and the battle of the Thames, in a 
late speech, at a public meeting in that city, in 
speaking of General Harrison, says : 

"At the age of nineteen, I first became ac- 
quainted with the distinguished patriot in 
whose behalf we have assembled, and having 
been by his side through nearly the whole of 
the late war, I can bear testimony to his cool, 
undaunted and collected courage, as well as to 
his skill, as an able, efficient, and active officer. 
After the battle of Tippecanoe, which has thrown 
so much glory over our country's arms, it luas 
universally admitted that General Harrison 
was the mily officer that could have saved the 
army from defeat and massacre. 

Effects of General Harrison's eloquence and 
example upon his soldiers ; also proofs of his 
kindness and disinterestedness, and absence of 
every selfish consideration: — 

It was General Harrison's constant practice 
to address his troops, personally, believing it to 
be more effectual than the common mode of 
general orders. He never omitted an opportu- 
nity of setting his troops the example of cheer- 
fully submitting to those numerous and severe 
privations, incident to the carrying on of mili- 
tary operations, in an almost trackless desert, 
and in the most inclement seasons. 

During the campaign on the Wabash, the 
troops were put upon a half a pound of bread 
per day. This quantity only was allowed to 
the officers of every rank, and rigidly conformed 
to in the general's own family. The allowance 
for dinner was uniformly divided between the 
company, and not an atom more was permitted. 
In the severe winter campaign of 1812-13, he 
slept under a thinner tent than any other per- 
son, whether officer or soldier; and it was the 
general observation of the officers, that his ac- 
commodations might generally be known, by 
their being the worst in the army. Upon the 
expedition up the Thames all his baggage was 
contained in a valise, while his bedding con- 
sisted of a single blanket, fastened over his 
saddle, and even this he gave to Colonel Evans, 
a British officer who was wounded. His sub- 



sistence was exactly that of a common sol- 
dier. 

On the night, after the action upon the 
Thames, thirty-five British officers supped with, 
him upon fresh beef roasted before the fire, 
without either salt or bread, and without ardent 
spirits of any kind. Whether upon the march 
or in the camp, the whole army was regularly 
under arms at daybreak. Upon no occasion 
did he fail to be out himself, however severe the 
weather, and was generally the first officer on 
horseback of the whole army. Indeed, he made 
it a point on every occasion, to set an example of 
fortitude and patience to his men, and to share 
with them every hardship, difficulty, and dan- 
ger. 

One of the many evidences of General Har- 
rison's high sense of justice, magnanimity, and 
scrupulous regard for the feelhigs and interests 
of others : — 

A few years ago, it was ascertained that a 
large tract of land near Cincinnati, which had 
been sold some time before for a mere trifle, 
under an execution against the original proprie- 
tor, could not be held by the titles derived from 
the purchasers, on account of some irregularity 
in the proceedings. The legal title was in 
General Harrison and another gentleman, who 
were the heirs at law. This tract of land was 
exceedingly valuable, and would have consti- 
tuted a princely estate for both these heirs, had 
they chosen to insist on their legal rights ; or 
they might have made some amicable arrange- 
ment with the purchasers, to which tliey would 
gladly have assented, and have retained at least 
one half of this property, by giving up the re- 
mainder. But General Harrison had never yet 
suffered his interest to blind his true sense of 
justice and high-minded honour, nor did he in 
this instance. On being informed of the situa- 
tion of this property, he obtained the sissent of 
his co-heir, and immediately executed deeds in 
fee simple to the purchasers, without claiming 
any consideration except the trilling difference 
between the actual value of the land when 
sold and the amount paid at the sheriff's sale. 
There were in this tract, too, twelve acres of 
General Harrison's private property by donation 
from his father-in-law, which had been impro- 
perly included in the sale, and which he might 
have retained both legally and equitably ; but 
such was his nice sense of honour and scrupu- 
lous regard for the rights of others, that he suf- 
fered even these twelve acres to be included in 
the deed given to the purchasers. This portion 
of the land thus relinquished by General Har- 
rison, is now worth more tlian one liundred 
thousand dollars ! 

A patriotic and republican toast: — 
The following sentiment was offered by Ge- 
neral Harrison at a public entertainment: 

" The people will remember, that to preserve 
their liberties, they must do their own voting, 
and their own fighting" 




General Harrison at the Battle of the Thames. — p. 32. 



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In the autumn of 1S22, General Harrison, 
beino; a candidate for congress, published a short 
address to the voters of his district, in which he 
sums up his pohtical principles. We subjoin 
a portion of it,* breathing the pure spirit of 
sound republicanism. 

'•I believe, that upon the preservation of the 
union of the states depends the existence of 
our civil and religious liberties; and that the 
cement which binds it together is not a parcel 
of words, written upon paper or parchments, 
but the brotherly love and regard which the 
citizens of the several states possess for each 
other. Destroy this, and the beautiful fabric 
which was reared and embellished by our an- 
cestors crumbles into ruins. From its dis- 
jointed parts no temple of liberty will again 
be reared. Discord and wars will succeed 
to peace and harmony — barbarism will again 
overspread the land ; or, what is scarcely bet- 
ter, some kingly tyrant will promulgate the de- 
crees of his will, from the seat where a Wash- 
ington and a Jellerson dispensed the blessings 
of a free and equal government. 1 believe it, 
therefore, to be the duty of a representative, to 
conciliate, by every possible means, the members 
of our great political family, and always to bear 
in mind that as the wiian was effected only by 
a spirit (if mutual concession and forbearance, 
so only can it he preserved." 

In the year 1824, the legislature of Ohio 
elected General Harrison to the senate of the 
United States, in which body, soon after taking 
"his seat, he succeeded General Jackson as chair- 
man of the committee on military affairs. 
While a member of that body, among other 
measures, he strongly advocated a bill giving a 
preference, in the appointment of cadets to the 
military academy at West Point, to the sans 
of those lolio had fallen in battle, in tfteir 
count ry^s service. 

While in the senate, John Randolph, of Vir- 
ginia, took occasion to renew an old charge 
against General Harrison, of his having been a 
black-cockade federalist of '98, and of having 
voted for the alien and sedition laws of that 
period. As soon as Mr. Randolph had taken 
his seat. General Harrison rose, and with re- 
markable coolness and temper, considering the 
virulent and unprovoked character of the at- 
tack, he observed : " the extraordinary man- 
ner in which his name had been brought be- 
fore the senate, by the senator from Virginia, 
probably required some notice from him, though 
he scarcely knew how to treat such a charge 
as 'had been advanced against him seriously. 
The gentleman had charged him with being a 
black-cockade federalist of '98, and with having 
voted for the standing army and the alien and 
sedition laws. He had not so fertile a memory 
as the gentleman from Virginia, nor could he at 
command call up ail the transactions of nearly 



* Sketches, &c. 



thirty years ago. He could say, however, that 
at the time alluded to, he was not a party man 
in the sense the senator from Virginia used. 
He was a delegate of a territory which was 
just then rising into importance, and having 
no vote on the general questions before Con- 
gress, it was neither his duty nor the interest 
of those whom he represented to plunge into 
the turbulent sea of general politics which 
then agitated the nation. There were ques- 
tions of great importance to the north-western 
territory before Congress, questions upon the 
proper settlement of which the future prosperity 
of that now important portion of the Union 
greatly depended. Standing, as he did, the sole 
representative of that territory, his greatest am- 
bition was to prove himself faithful to his trust, 
by cherishing its interests, and nothing could 
have been more suicidal or pernicious to those 
he represented, than for him to exasperate either 
party by becoming a violent partisan, without 
the power of aiding either party, because he 
had no vote on any political question. This 
was his position, and although he had his poli- 
tical principles as firmly fixed as those of the 
gentleman from Virginia, it was no business of 
his to strike where he could not be felt, and 
where the blow must recoil upon himself and 
those whom he represented. He wore no 
cockade, black or tri-coloured, at that day — and 
never wore one but when he was in the mili- 
tary service of his country. But he was seri- 
ously charged with the heinous oflonce of as- 
sociation with federal gentlemen. He plead 
guilty — he respected the revolutionary services 
of President Adams, and had paid him that 
courtesy which was due to him as a man and 
as chief magistrate. He also associated with, 
such men as John Marshall and James A. Bay^ 
ard — was the acknowledgment of such guilt to 
throw him out of the pale of political salva- 
tion 1 

" On the other hand he was on intimate terms 
with Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Gallatin, and with the 
whole Virginia delegation, among whom he 
had many kinsmen and dear friends. They 
were his principal associates in Philadelphia, in 
whose mess he had often met the gentleman 
who was now his accuser, and with whom he 
had spent some of the happiest hours of his 
life. It was true, as the senator had alleged, he 
had been appointed governor of the north-west- 
ern territory by John Adams — so had he been 
by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. He 
was not in congress when the standing army was 
created, and the alien and sedition laws were 
passed, and if he had been, he could not have 
voted for them, and would not if he could. It 
was not in his nature to be a violent or pro- 
scriptive partisan, but he had given a lirm sup- 
port to the republican administrations of Jef- 
ferson, Madison and Monroe. He hiiped the 
senator from Virginia was answered — he was 
sure the senate must be wearied with this frivo- 
lous and unprofitable squabble.' " 



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35 



INVITATION TO THE LOG CABIN BOYS, 

TO OLD TIPPECANOE'S RAISIN'. 

Tune— The good old days of Mam and Eve. 

Come, all you Log Cabin Boys, we're going to 

have a raisin', 
We've got a job on hand, that we think will be 

pleasin', 
We'll turn out anil build Old Tip a new Cabin, 
And finish it off with chiukiu' and daubin', 
We want all the Log Cabin Boys in the nation, 
To be on the ground when we lay the founda- 
tion ; 
And we'll make all the office-holders think its 

amaziii', 
To see how we work at Old Tippecanoe's 
raisin'. 

On the thirtieth of next October, 

We'll take some Hard Cider, but we'll all keep 

sober ; 
We'll shoulder our axes and cut down the 

timber. 
And have our Cabin done by the second of De- 

cemlier, 
We'll have it well chink'd, and we'll have on 

the cover 
Of good sound clapboards, with the weight 

poles over, 
And a good wide chimney for the fire to blaze 

in : 
So come on boys, to Old Tippecanoe's raisin'. 

Ohio will find the houselog timber, 

And Old Virginia, as you'll remember. 

Will find the timber for the clapboards and 

chinkin' — 
'Twill all be the first rate stuff I'm thinkin'; 
And when we want to daub it, it happens very 

lucky 
That we have got the best Clay in Old Ken- 
tucky ; 
For there's no other State has such good clays in, 
To make the mortar for Old Tippecanoe's raisin'. 

For the hauling of the logs, we'll call on Penn- 
sylvania, 

For their Conestoga teams will pull as well as 
any, 

And the Yankee States and York State, and 
all of the others, 

Will come and help us lift like so many bro- 
thers, 

The Hoosiers and the Suckers, and the Wolve- 
rine farmers, 

They all know the right way to carry up the 
corners. 

And every one's a good enough carpenter and 
mason, 

To do a little work at Old Tippecanoe's raisin'. 

We'll cut out a window and have a wide door 

in. 
We'll lay a good loft and a first rate floor in, 
We'll fix it all complete, for Old Tip to see his 

friends in, 



.^nd we know that the latch-string will never 

have its end in, 
On the fourth day of March, Old Tip will 

move in it, 
And then little Martin will have to shin it, 
So hurrah Boys, there's no two ways in 
The fun we'll have at Old Tippecanoe's raisin'. 



Another proof of the genuine republicanism 
and goodness of heart of the people's candi- 
date for the Presidency : — 

From the New Orleans True American. 
THE OLD SOLDIER. 

"I was dining with General Harrison in the 
spring of 1839," said a gentleman to us, a day 
or two ago, " and while in the midst of our re- 
past, a loud knock was heard at the door. My 
host rose from the table, excused himself, and 
went to the door to see who it was that was so 
desirous of admittance. After a parley of some 
moments wiih a person who spoke in a rough 
tone of voice, the General ushered into the 
room a very old man, whose worn out and tat- 
tered garments bespoke great distress and 
poverty." 

" ' Mr. ,' said General Harrison, ' this 

is one of my soldiers, and I have invited him 
in to dine with us. He was with me in the 
sortie of Fort Meigs and at the Thames, I re- 
member his bravery well. These are the men 
whom we must honour. — Take that se»c, 
George. 

" George, for that was the old soldier's nara^v' 
continued our friend, " sat down and soon gave 
us cause to know that a good dinner and he had 
been strangers for many a long day. The old 
fellow's feelings became enlivened by the good 
things he had partaken of, and a glnss or two 
of whisky and water, and for nearly two hours, 
did the General and he fight their battles over 
again. Towards evening, the General took me 
aside, and asked me to join with him in the 
charity he was about to bestow. I cheerfully 
consented. The General went to his bed-room, 
and in a few moments returned with a new 
black coat. 

" ' George,' said the Hero, ' this is the only 
coat I have, except the thread-bare one on my 
back. Take it, and while it protects you from 
the inclement winds of cold spring, remember, 
that had your old General his way, cve-y old 
soldier in the country should not know what 
want was the rest of his days.' 

" I added my mite to George's empty purse, 
and gave him ' silver' enough to carry him hom^ 
into the interior of Ohio — for he had been ti* 
New Orleans on a flatboat and was now on hxa 
return. 

" ' You will take this note,' said the Geiw-ral, 
' and when you get to Cincinnati, call oa Mr. 

M , give him this, and he will further 

aid you. I am like yourself, George, poor, and 
have to labour for my living, after long toil and 
hard work in the service of my country ; but wo 



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poor soldiers enjoy at least the proud conscious- 
ness of liaving done our duty.' 

" After some further conversation, George 
departed, thanking Iiis old General from his 
heart, 'J'his little circumstance turned the con- 
versation between the General and myself upon 
the hardships of the last war, the faithfulness 
of his troops, and the true policy that the go- 
vernment oufih'. to pursue to its surviving de- 
fenders." This anecdote, however, will serve 
to shovsr you the kind-hearted goodness of the 
old General, and it proves that if he is elected 
President, he will be the President of the peo- 
ple — accessible to all. 

A CALUMNY REFUTED. 
" Selling white men fur debt." 

This infamous charge against General Hah- 
RTSox, wl'ich has again and again been shown 
to be destitute of a particle of truth, is still, we 
hear repeated by some of the unscrupulous de- 
magogues in the service of the Administration. 
We once again, at some inconvenience, repub- 
lish a letter written by General Harrison him- 
self in 1821, wiien the charge was first made, 
and nailing the falsehood to the counter. 

To any man who shall hereafter repeat this 
calumny, we beg to say to him, as the Louis- 
ville Journal does : " Imagine us at youi- elbow, 
W"d whispering in your ear, ' what you have 
/aid is false, and you know it to be falae.' " — 
Richmond Whig. 
To the Cincinnati Advertiser : 

Sir — In your paper of the 15th instant, I 
obsei-ved a most violent attack upon eleven other 
members of the late Senate and myself, for a 
supposed vote given at the last session for the 
passage of a law to " sell debtors in certain 
cases." If such had been our conduct, I ac- 
knowledge that we should not only deserve the 
censure which the writer has bestowed upon us, 
but the execration of every honest man in 
society. An act of that kind is not only op- 
posed to the principles of justice and humanity, 
but would be a palpable violation of the consti- 
tution of the state, which every legislator is 
sworn to support ; and sanctioned by a house 
of representatives and twelve senators, it would 
indicate a state of depravity which would fill 
every patriotic bosom with the most alarming 
anticipations. But the fact is, that no such 
proposition was ever made in the legislature 
or even thought of. The act to which the 
writer alludes, has no more relation to tlie col- 
lection of ' debts,' than it has to the discovery 
of longitude. It was an act for the punishment 
of oflences against the state, and that part of it 
which has so deeply wounded your corres- 
pondent, was passed by the house of repre- 
sentatives, and voted for by twelve senators, 
under the impression that it was the most 
raild and humane mode of dealing with the of- 
fenders for whose cases it was intended. It 
was adopted by the house of representatives as 
a part of the general system of the criminal law, 



which was then undergoing a complete revi- 
sion and amendment; the necessity of this is 
evinced by the following facts: For several 
years past, it had become apparent that the Peni- 
tentiary system was becoming more and more 
burdensome at every session ; a large appropri- 
ation was called for to meet the excess of expen- 
diture, above the receipts of the establishment. 
In the commencement of the session of 1820, 
the deficit amounted to near twenty thousand 
dollars. 

This growing evil required the immediate in- 
terposition of some vigorous legislative measure ; 
two were recommended as being likely to pro- 
duce the effect ; first, placing the institution 
under better management ; and secondly, lessen- 
ing the number of convicts who were sentenced 
for short periods, and whose labour was found 
of course to be most unproductive. In pursu- 
ance of the latter principle, thefts to the amount 
of fifty dollars, or upwards, were subjected to 
punishment in the Penitentiary, instead of ten 
dollars, which was the former minimum sum; 
this was easily done. But the great difficulty 
remained to determine v/hat should be the pun- 
ishment of those numerous larcenies below the 
sum of fifty dollars. By some, whipping was 
proposed ; by others, punishment by hard labour 
in the county jails ; and by others, it was thought 
best to make them work on the highways. To 
all these there appeared insuperable objec- 
tions : fine and imprisonment were adopted by 
the house of representatives, as the only alter- 
native ; and as it was well known that these 
vexatious pilferings were generally perpetrated 
by the more worthless vagabonds in society, it 
was added that when they could not pay fines 
and costs, which are always part of the sentence 
and punishment, their services should be sold 
out to any person who would pay their fines 
and costs for them. iThis was the clause that 
was passed, as I believe, by a unanimous vote 
of the Hou.se, and stricken out in the Senate, in 
opposition to the twelve who have been de- 
nounced. A little further trouble in examining 
the journals, would have shown your corres- 
pondent that this was considered as a substitute 
for whipping, wliich was lost only by a single 
vote in the Senate, and in the House by a small 
majority, after being once passed. 

i think, Mr. Editor, I have said enough to 
show that this obnoxious law would not have 
applied to "unfortunate debtors of sixty-fjur 
years," but to infamous otTenders, who depre- 
date upon the property of their fellow-citizens, 
and who, by the constitution of the slate, as 
well as the principle of existing laws, were sub- 
ject to involuntary servitude. I must confess I 
had no very sanguine expectations of a beneficial 
efi'ect from this measure, as it would apply to 
convicts who had att.iined the age of maturity ; 
but I had supposed that a woman or a youth, 
who, convicted of an ofl(3nce, remained in jail 
for the payment of the fine and costs imposed, 
might with great advantage be transferred to 
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family, whose precept and example, would 
greatly lead them back to the paths of recti- 
tude. 

I would appeal to the candour of your corres- 
pondent to say, whether if there were an indi- 
vidual confined under the circumstances I have 
mentioned, for whose fate he was interested, 
he would not gladly s<'e him transferred, from 
the filthy enclosure of a jail, and the still more 
filthy inhabitants, to the comfortable mansion 
of some virtuous citizen, whose admonitions 
would check his vicious propensities, and whose 
authority over him would be no more than is 
exercised over thousands of apprentices in our 
country, and those bound servants, which are 
tolerated in our, as well as in every other state 
in the Union. Far from advocating the abomi- 
nahle principle cttvibuted to me by your cor- 
respondent, I think that imprisonment for deljt, 
under any circumstance but that where fraud 
is alleged, is at war with the best principles of 
our Constitution, and ought to be abolished. 
I am, sir, your humble servant, 

Wm. H. Harrison. 
North Bend, Dec. 21, 1821. 



The following song was written by a young 
gentleman of New York, and sung at a Whig 
meeting in that city on Monday night : — 

OLD TIP. 

A Song to the tune of the " Old Oaken Bucket." 

Oh dear to my soul are the days of our glory. 
The time honoured days of our national pride. 
When heroes and statesmen ennobled our 

story. 
And boldly the foes of our country defied. 
When victory hung o'er our flag proudly 

waving. 
And the battle was fought by the valiant and 

true. 
For our homes and our loved ones the enemy 

braving. 
Oh then stood the soldier of Tippecanoe. 
The iron-armed soldier, the true-hearted soldier. 
The gallant old soldier of Tippecanoe. 

"When dark was the tempest, and hovering o'er 
us, 

The clouds of destruction seemed gathering 
fast ; 

Idke a ray of bright sunshine he stood out be- 
fore us. 

And the clouds passed away with the hurrying 
blast. 

When the Indian's loud yell, and his toma- 
hawk flashing 

Spread terror around us, and hope was with 
few. 

Oh then, through the ranks of the enemy dash- 
ing, 

Sprang forth to the rescue old Tippecanoe. 

The iron-armed soldier, the true-hearted soldier. 

The gallant old soldier of Tippecanoe. 



When cannons were polling and brave men 

were reeling. 
In the cold arms of death from the fire of the 

foe ; 
Where balls flew the thickest and blows fell the 

quickest. 
In the front of the battle bold Harry did go. 
The force of the enemy trembled before him. 
And soon from the field of his glory withdrew, 
And his warm-hearted comrades in triumph 

cried o'er him, 
God bless the bold soldier of Tippecanoe ! 
The iron-armed soldier, the true-hearted soldier, 
The gallant old soldier of Tippecanoe. 

And now since the men have so long held the 
nation. 

Who trampled our rights in their scorn to the 
ground. 

We will fill their cold hearts with a new trepi- 
dation. 

And shout in their ears this most terrible sound : 

The people are coming resistless and fearless. 

To sweep from the white house the reckless old 
crew, 

For the woes of our land, since its rulers are 
tearless, 

We look for relief to old Tippecanoe. 

The iron-armed soldier, the true-hearted soldier, 

The gallant old soldier of Tippecanoe. 

The people are coming from plain and from 

mountain. 
To join the brave band of the honest and free, 
Which grows as the stream from the leaf shel- 
tered fountain, 
Spreads broad and more broad till it reaches the 

sea. 
No strength can restrain it, no force can retain it, 
Whate'er may resist, it breaks gallantly through. 
And borne by its motion, as a ship on the 

ocean. 
Speeds on in his glory old Tippecanoe. 
The iron-armed soldier, the true-hearted soldier, 
The gallant old soldier of Tippecanoe. 



From among the thousand instances on re- 
cord of General Harrison's noble generosity 
and disinterestedness, we give place to the fol- 
lowing interesting recital : — 

From tl|f> Uiiinntnwn Democrat. 

THE ORPHAN WOOD CHOPPER 

About fifteen or eighteen years ago, a fan;ily 
resided in Fayette county, the father and mo- 
ther of vv'hom died of an epidemic then preva- 
lent, leaving three children, two sons and a 
daughter, in a forlorn and destitute situation. 
By this melancholy event, the management and 
support of the family chiefly rested on the 
elder brother, then about eighteen years of age. 
Brought up to industry by his poor and pious 
parents, he did not for a moment despair, but 
that the Almighty, who had deprived them of 
their earthly protector, for a purpose known 
only to Himself, would watch over them iii 
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their friendless and ilsf'stitute situation, and pro- 
vide for them, with proper industry on their 
part. At that time, -the chopping of wood at 
the furnaces offered the most constant employ- 
ment, and he could have the company and as- 
sistance of his little brother and sister, to whom 
he was much attached. Having left the small 
log cabin which had been for many years occu- 
pied by their parents, and which was endeared 
to them by the recollection of many past events, 
they betook themselves, with their little all, to 
the coaling ground of a neighbouring farmer, and 
became the tenants of a cheerless tenement, 
compared with the one they had left. During 
the day, the elder chopped wood, and the 
younger, assisting, as far as his strength would 
permit, while the sister attended to the domes- 
tic concerns of their hut. In the evenings, and 
on days when the weather would not admit of 
out-door employment, the elder brother, who 
had received a tolerable English education in 
the after time of his parents, taught the brother 
and sister — and his exertions were not spent in 
vain, as the sequel will show. 

With economy and proper management, at 
the expiration of a few years, they had accu- 
mulated a small fund in money, and upon con- 
sultation they determined to invest it in a piece 
of Western land. At that time, the attention of 
emigrants was directed principally to Indiana, 
as offering the greatest inducements. Thither 
then, the eider brother was to go, for the pur- 
pose of locating a home. 

Having taken an affectionate leave of those 
he most dearly loved on earth, he departed to the 
Monongahela river, where he obtained a pas- 
sage on a flat boat bound for Cincinnati, and in 
due lime arrived at that place in safety. He 
was then directed to seek the Wabash country, 
for the most fertile lands in the state. — Early 
the next morning he set out for Vincennes, 
where the principal Land Office for that region 
was then located. Little experienced in jour- 
neying on foot, and buoyed up with the plea- 
sing idea of getting a home for himself and 
those whom he had left some hundred miles be- 
hind ; but whose welfare and happiness, identi- 
fied with his own, kept a place in his recollec- 
tion — he pushed on at a rate too great for even 
an accomplished pedestrian to withstand. His 
ankles became swollen, and his feet much blis- 
tered. Aware of his scanty means and his 
great desire to accomplish his end, he felt un- 
willing to lose time, and continuing, aggravated 
the impediment, until he was scarce able even 
to hobble along. 

Thus situated he became depressed in spirits, 
and almost ready to sink under despondency, 
when he was overtaken on the road by a plain, 
farmer-looking gentleman on horseback The 
horseman, upon coming up, thus accosted him 
in a benevolent and kind manner. " Young 
man. you appear lame, and not well calculated 
to make much progress on a journey." To 
which the young man replied, informing him 
of the cause of his lameness — that He was 



bound for the land office at Vincennes, for the 
purpose of entering a piece of land as a home 
for himself and a younger brother and sister, 
whom he had left orphans in Fayette county, 
Pennsylvania, but that he almost despaired 
of reaching it in his present crippled situation. 
The gentleman on horseback quickly replied — 
" We have the same destination, I am also 
bound for Vincennes — it is yet twenty miles — 
here mount my horse and ride him hither. I 
am much more able to walk than you, in your 
disabled situation." The young man after ur- 
gent solicitation, placed himself in the saddle, 
and the plain gentleman took it afoot the rest 
of the distance to Vincennes, where they ar- 
rived about nightfall. 

In the morning, the stranger again accosted 
the young man, — " You told me yesterday on 
our journey, that your object was to enter a 
piece of land. I have some knowledge of this 
country, its location and advantages — if you 
will accept my aid, I will go with yoa to the 
land office and select a piece for yon. It will 
save you a good deal of trouble and some ex- 
pense." The offer was cheerfully accepted, 
and they proceeded to the office and made the 
entry. I3ut imagine the chagrin and disap- 
pointment of the young man, when he came to 
pay the money to the receiver, to learn the 
amount was deficient five dollars, owing to a 
counterfeit to that amount. " A friend in need 
is a friend indeed." The stranger perceiving 
the dilemma of the young man, immediately 
said — ■' Be of good cheer — you informed me 
that you are an orphan — that you have come 
several hundred miles in search of a home for 
yourself and brother and sister. You shall not 
be disappointed — it gives me pleasure to assist 
the orphan and destitute. Here are ten dollars 
which will enable )'ou to clear out your land 
and pay your vvay, until you can olitain em- 
ployment, and as I have many acquaintances 
here, I shall seek out a place for you." ' He did 
so, and obtained one — and the young man con- 
tinued in it, until he had accumulated some 
money, which he remitted to his brother and 
sister, and enabled them to join him. The 
piece of land proved to be a valuable one — now 
finely improved and occupied by the elder 
brother and his family — respected and esteem- 
ed by their neighbours. The sister was happily 
married, and is enjoying the comforts of life, 
on a farm in the same neighbourhood. The 
younger brother, possessing the confidence of 
his fellow-citizens, has been elected and is now 
performing the duties of a highly responsible 
office. 

Reader ! who was that stranger, that good 
man, thai plain republican, vi\\o so disinterest- 
edly stept forward, and in the hour of need as- 
sisted these orphans, and enabled them to fix 
themselves comfortably in life 1 Does not your 
bosom swell with gratitude for so noble a 
deed 1 

My friends, that stranger, that good plain re- 
publican, was GENERAL HARRISON. He 



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"wiin Tiad been Governor of a State, the com- 
mander of armies, had fousrht many battles in 
his country's cause, and never lost one, did not 
acquire the supercdious demeanour, which those 
in power too frequently do. He is still the 
plain republican, ever ready to assist the poor 
and needy with his purse and his counsel. 

Reader — the above is not fiction. There are 
those yet residing in Fayette county who re- 
inember these orphan children, and should you 
ever meet with them, they will relate to you, 
from overflowing and grateful hearts, this wor- 
thy deed of the good General HARRISON. 

This is the man whom the " people" are 
about to call to preside over the destinies of this 
great Kepublic. Is he not worthy of it? 

ORPHAN, 



HARRISON SONG. 

Tune — Gaihj the Trouhadour, 

Gaily did Harrison 

Come from his home, 
Whilst he was yet in youth, 

Not twenty-one ; 
He joined our gallant band 

On our frontiers, 
Harrison — Harrison — 

Give him three cheers. 

Hark, all ye gallant Whigs, 

Firm, brave, and true, 
After he'd joined the band 

What did he dol 
He led to victory, 

Free from all fears, 
Harrison — Harrison — 

Give him three cheers. 

Huzza for Harrison, 

Success to him, 
He makes the Vanocrats 

Look rather slim ; 
He is the people's man. 

Away with our fears, 
Harrison — Harrison — 

Give him three cheers. 

Then let us stick to him. 

Young, old, and all, 
And, like old Proctor's men, 

Matty must fall ; 
Turn then, ye Vanocrats, 

Fear not their sneers, 
Harrison — H9rrison — 

Give him three cheers. 



GENERAL HARRISON'S CHARACTER 
Defended by a Loco-Foco Journal, 
The following manly rebuke addressed to the 
traducers of General Harrison, is from the Ohio 
Confederate, a Van Buren journal. We com- 
mend it to the notice of the Argus, the Post, 
and the New Era. If any one of these jour- 
nals will give an insertion to this tribute of 



respect to the time and war-worn patriot, we 
promise to publish an article of ecjual length — 
nay, we will not stand on trilles of twice the 
leni;th — contrasting the claims of Mr. Van 
Buren, with those here conceded by one of the 
alilest loco-foco journals in the west, to the 
democratic candidate for the presidency, Wm. 
Henry Harrison. What say you, Messrs. Ar- 
gus, Post, and Era 1 Dare you publish ? 

GENERAL HARRISON. 
" A superannuated and pitiable dotard." — 0. S. 

Bull. 
" As the petticoat general passed through 

town," &c. — Dem. Spark. 

If we did not entertain the highest respect 
for the papers from which we have made the 
foregoing quotations, we would avoid the liabi- 
lities to which we know we are exposing our- 
selves when we take exception to these expres- 
sions. But it is precisely because we esteem 
them influential and worthy journals, that we 
are not at liberty to forbear the objections which 
we have against them, or of the imputation of 
a fault-finding disposition. 

Can it be, brethren, that the cause which 
you espouse, the principles you advocate, or the 
success even of the man whom you prefer, can 
only be secured by the use of such means as 
this 1 Are the truth, and the beauty, and the 
power of republicanism to be established by 
detractory aspersions of individual character? 
Are Mr. Van Buren's claims to the respect and 
confidence of the people, and his title to the 
highest honour of the public service, only to 
be maintained, or in any degree assisted, by 
contumelious treatment of his rivals in popular 
favour 1 Surely there is error in this thing. 
Divest yourselves, if but for a moment, of the 
excitement, (we had almost said of the phrenzy,) 
which you allow your party attachments and 
animosities to engender — assume the cool and 
generous frame of mind which so well befits 
the free and enlightened citizen, (and such you 
are,) and calmly answer the inquiry — " Who is 
he whom we are describing as the prtticn/il ge- 
neral, the superannuated and pitiable dotard?''^ 
Yourselves will answer — and that not of com- 
pulsion — political aspirations out of view, your- 
selves will answer most frankly — he is a tried 
and a worthy citizen ; ay, "seven times is he" — 
in the ordeals of fire and water. While yet a 
stripling, you will say, he gave himself to the 
arduous service of his country ; he exchanged 
the joys and the safety of a family at home, for 
the perils and hardships of a dreary wilderness 
and a savage enemy. For forty years thence 
forward, did he devote himself to his country ; 
in peace and in war, in danger and in security, 
in the camp and in the closet, in the senate 
and in the battle field, did he serve that country 
in true fealty and untarnished honour; until, 
even now, grown gray in that hard service which 
has brought him nothing but a glorious reputa- 
tion and a conscience void of ofl'cnce against 
the obligation of patriotism, he stands, in hw 



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ol'J age. among the millions who surround him, 
a model of official purity and uncorrupted inte- 
grity. And this is the toil-worn soldier and 
honoured citizen, who is described as " a super- 
annuated and a pitiable dotard," and a '■^petti- 
coat general." ! ! 

Brethren, if we believe another to be the 
better statesman, let us say^ so. If we think the 
aged patriot entertains opinions and sentiments 
adverse to the important interests of our coun- 
try, let us canvass unreservedly those sentiments 
and opinions. But in the name of humanity 
and gratitude, let us not taunt the war-worn 
veteran with the decreptitude of years, which 
come to all of human kind, nor touch with 
rude, unfeeling hand, his hard-earned garlands, 
won on many a bloody field, where brave men 
fought! Gentlemen, there is a vast difference 
between the goose quill and the death-dealing 
sword — a mighty contrast between the suffer- 
ings and the dangers of a tented field, and 
the soft and easy life of a critic who despises it. 

When, under the impulse of political acer- 
bity, one feels prone to disparage the just claims 
of General Harrison to the consideration of the 
people, there are two circumstances, the recol- 
lection of which ought, it would seem, to arrest 
the incipient purpose. It should be remembered, 
in the first place, that three years have just gone 
by, when a majority of the citizens of Ohio 
would have raised him to the loftiest post of 
responsibility and honour — and that such an 
expression of popular opinion is entitled to some 
weight, in estimating individual character. And 
in the second place, let it not be forgotten, (by 
future generations it will not be,) that from the 
service of the state, continuing through all the 
active years of a lengthened life, he retlrts in 
po^ierty. When the fact becomes so common 
as no longer to be remarkable, let his country- 
men cease to hold it as a token of Harrison's 
worth ; but while as yet it remains the solitary 
instance, save one, in which the love of money 
has been totally lost in the noble love of coun- 
try and honour, let it be acknowledged the 
proudest monument of his greatness and the 
hest memorial of his virtue. 



Additional and satisfactory evidence of Gene- 
ral Harrison's genuine and undeviating repub- 
licanism. 

All old letter from General Harrison, which 
proves him to he of t lie old republican school. 
Dr. Joseph Brownley, formerly of Harford 
county, Maryland, now a citizen of Richmond, 
has placed in our hands a letter from General 
Harrison to him, dated llth November, 1809, 
twenty-one years ago. It is interesting in many 
particulars, and especially so, as giving an in- 
stance how easy it had been for General Har- 
rison, then governor of the northwestern terri- 
tory, to have acquired a fortune without expense 
or hazard, had he been capable of cheating the 
government. ( Speculati' 'g, others in his place 
might have tailed it.) We heard a citizen say 



the other day, (a man who knows the world 
and public affairs well) that ho had no particu- 
lar leaning to Harrison, but he should vote for 
him because millions of public money having 
passed through his hands, none had stuck. 
Had he plundered the public, and in his treaties 
with the Indians accepted presents of fine lands, 
and procured immense reservations for himself, 
he would not now be sneered at by the office- 
holders as the " log cabin" and " hard cider" 
candidate, or his honest poverty be derided by 
propositions to send him old clothes. 

But to return to the letter. In the year 1809, 
the old republican and federal parties existed ia 
full force, and party feeling ran high, the war 
with England approaching, and the restrictive 
policy of Mr. Jefferson giving rise to much 
heat. The contest in Maryland was close, but 
the Republicans, in the fall of that year, carried 
the state. U})on this, General Harrison says 
to Dr. Brownley : — 

" I rejoice sincerely in the triumph of the 
Republicans of Maryland. I have written to 
my friend General Smith (Gen. Saml. Smith) 
lo congratulate him on his appointment to the 
senate, without having any olfier evidence of it 
than the success of the Republican ticket." 

A word to Mr. Goode on this extract : Would 
a black-cockade Federalist have rejoiced in 1809, 
at the success of the Republican party in Ma- 
ryland 1 Would he have written from Vin- 
cennes to Baltimore to congratulate General 
Smith, the champion of the Republican party, 
and the friend of Jefferson and Madi.^dn, if he 
had been a black-cockade Federalist ? We think 
all Virginia will shout, No! We think Mr 
Goode himself must be satisfied that the charge 
is unfounded, and that in making it, John Ran- 
dolph yielded to the spleen which but too often 
mastered his judgment and eradicated his sense 
of justice. Certain it is, the charge itself was 
most unfounded, and in direct conflict with the 
facts. The venerable Judge Burnett proves 
that Harrison was a warm supporter of Mr. 
Jefferson against the elder Adams. All know 
that Presidents Jefferson and Madison appointed 
him to high and confidential office. In the war 
of 1812, declared by the Republican party, 
Harrison was in arms from first to last. This 
letter, now before us, furnishes the most un- 
suspicious and conclusive evidence of the same 
tenor. Let the charge, then, be magnanimously 
abandoned. — Richmond Whig. 

[Dr. Brownley, referred to above, is well 
known in this state, and was formerly a mem- 
ber of the Maryland senate.] 

THE HARD CIDER AND LOG CABIN 
CANDIDATE. 

The leading paper of the office-holders' party 
puts forth a statement, of the probable vot« oa 
the presidential question, in which it generously 
allows the North Bend Farmer eighteen votes? 
This shows a decided increase in the liberal 
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previous to the last election, that the okl hero 
woulil not receive the vote of a single state in 
the Union — yet when the battle was over, it 
appeared that four thousand more votes in 
Pennsylvania would have defeated Mr. Van 
Buren before the people. But now that the 
contest must be decided by the people without 
recourse to Congress, when there is an open 
field and a fair race, man to man, it does not 
require the spirit of prophecy to foresee tiiat 
the "log cabin" working man, whether refresh- 
ed by cold water or " hard cider," will run far 
ahead of the champagne and cologne candidate, 
aided by his EngUsh chariot and English blood 
horses. 

The office-holders think the Old Farmer will 
be content with his " log cabin" and " hard 
cider." Very likely — for he has often had much 
harder fare — many a time has he dined on 
PAnciiEU coux, without even "iiAitn ciukr" 
to moisten it, and without even a " log cabin" 
to protect him, or a bed to rest on. But, after 
dining on parched corn and with a stump for a 
table, he has produced better letters than ever 
came from the pen of the present occupant of 
the White House, 

It seems, however, that the peoplf. think the 
old WORKING MAX has been in the "log cabin" 
and drank "hard cider" long enough ; and they 
have resolved that the "pooh man's fiiiend" 
shall be placed in a situation where he will be 
of more use to poor men, and where he can 
contribute to heal the bleeding wounds of his 
country. 

In a word, the people have willed that Wil- 
liam Kexht Haruisox shall be the next 
president of the United States. And all the 
edbrts of the office-holders to suppress the voice 
of the people will be in vain. 

Anthony Watxe. 

NATIONAL WHIG SONG. 

Sung by Mr, Russell, at his concert in Boston, 

on the I5th inst. 
I'll sing you now a new Whig song, made to a 

good old rhyme. 
Of a fine true-hearted gentleman, all of the 

olden time ; 
By birth and lilood, by kith and kin, a sound 

true Whig was he. 
For his father signed the charter that made our 
country free. 
Like a fine true-hearted gentleman, 
All of the olden time. 

In youth, upon the tented field, his laurels he 

did gain, 
No chief so many battles fought, that never 

fought in vain ; 
In peace, the quiet statesman he; but when 

grim war arose. 
He buckled on his armour then, to meet his 
country's foes. 
Like a fi le true-hearted gentleman, 
/ill of the olden time. 
6 



And when he'd ser^•ed his country well, in 

seriate and in field. 
The honours tl^iat awaited him most freely did 

he yield ; 
He turned him to his home again, and sought 

a farmer's toils, 
For though he'd filled the ojjices, he never took 

the spoils. 
Lilce a fine true-hearted gentleman. 
All of the olden time. 

And when the people, in their might, have put 
their solemn ban 

Upon the arch Magician and on all his tory 
cTan, 

To manage well their state aflairs, with one ac- 
cord they'll send 

For another Cincinnatus — the Farmer of North 
Bend. 
For he's a fine true-hearted gentleman, 
All of the olden time. 

When in the youthful warrior's hand his coun- 
try placed the sword. 

He conquered all her enemies, that threatened 
from abroad ; 

And now, when with domestic foes her highest 
places teem. 

The land the gallant Soldier saved, the 
Statesman must redeem. 
Like a fine true-hearted gentleman, 
All of the olden time. 

Let every sound, true-hearted Whig now raise 
his voice on high. 

And, for the triumph of the cause, join Free- 
dom's loudest cry ; 

Come to the fight ; we'll win the field — away 
with doubts and fears ; 

The people's man is HARRISON — let's give 
him three good cheers. 
For he's a fine true-hearted gentleman, 
All of the olden time. 

If our loco-foco friends will not believe the 
following testimony of John M. Niles, the late 
Van Buren candidate for governor of Connec- 
ticut, but most deplorably distanced in the race, 
and of Isaac Hill, the great gun of loco-foco 
Van Burenism in New Hampshire, they would 
not believe, " though one rose from the dead." 

VERITABLE WITNESSES ! 

It is not a little singular that some of the very 
best endorsements of General Harrison, yet 
published, have proceeded from Colonel R. M. 
Johnson, Thomas Ritchie, John M. Niles, and 
Isaac Hill ! 

The high and just encomiums which the first 
two honestly paid General Harrison, have been 
given to our readers. All these testimonials 
are the more valuable because they were given 
in a spirit of justice and patriotism, when the 
eyes of their authors were not blinded by party 
prejudice, and their hearts not embittered by 
party sj)irit. How futile and ridiculous do they 
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make all these attacks and s\anders with which 
a mercenary press now pursues the patriot 
soldier, merely because the people have selected 
him as their candidate for the presidency. 

It is scarcely necessary to say that Isaac Hill 
was recently the governor of New Hampshire, 
and has long been the leading oracle of Mr. 
Van Buren's administration in that state. 

We find in the New Hampshire Patriot of 
July 20, 1813, of which Isaac Hill was at that 
time the editor, the following, which shows 
where Mr. Allen of the senate obtained his 
hint for that infamous slander upon General 
Harrison, with which the loco-foco press is 
now rife: — 

" At a council with the chiefs of the Dela- 
ware, Shawanee, Wyandott, and Seneca tribes 
of Indians, at Franklinton, some of whom had 
manifested symptoms of hostility, General Har- 
rison in a speech alluded to the agreement 
made by Proctor to deliver him up to the In- 
dians to be murdered, in case Fort Meigs was 
taken ; and promised in case he, Harrison, was 
successful, that he would deliver Proctor into 
their hands — on condition that they should do 
liim no other harm than io put a pettiaint on 
him — ' for,' said he, ' none but a cuward or a 
squaw would kill a prisoner.' " 

In the Patriot of November 23, in the same 
year, we find the following high eulogy upon 
General Harrison : — 

" What man lives, whose whole heart and 
soul is not British, that cannot sincerely rejoice 
in the late victories of Perry and Harrison, that 
does not feel a pride in the valour and patriotism 
of the heroes of the West, who have freed a 
country large as the empire of Alexander the 
Great, from the Indian tomahawk and scalping 
knife ! If there be such a one, he is a traitor 
to his country — he possesses the spirit of a 
murderer." 

In the Patriot of January 7, 1812, we find 
the following paragraph touching the letter of 
General Harrison to Congress, after the glorious 
battle of Tippecanoe: — 

"To every American who feels for his coun- 
try, the perusal of that letter will produce pride 
and pleasure." 



Appendix, comprising a Biographical Memoir 
of the late Captain James Lawrence ,- with 
brief sketches of the most prominent events ia 
the Lives of Commodores Bainbrirlge, Deca- 
tur, Porter, and Macdnnoiigk. A view of the 
rise, present condition, and future prospects of 
the Navy of the Utiited States — a list of the 
Officers of the Navy, and vessels of War of 
the United States. — To which is added, a Bio- 
graphy of General Pike, and a view of the 
leading events in the life of GENERAL HAR- 
RISON— Ay John M. Niks, E^q. Second edi- 
tion, enlarged and improved. Hartford : pub- 
lished by Oliver D. Cooke, 1821." 

The " view of the leading events in the life 
of General Harrison," is in the following style 
and language : — 

" Major-General William Henry Harrison 
was born in Virginia, at a place called Berkley, 
on the James river, twenty miles below Rich- 
mond, and his descent is from one of the oldest 
and most respectable families of that state. He 
was destined by his father to the study and 
practice of physic. Accordingly, after receiv- 
ing a suitable school education, he commenced 
the study with Dr. Leiper, of Richmond, and 
was on his way to Philadelphia, with a view to 
finish his studies, when he heard of his father's 
death. It was a profession not congenial with 
l»s views, and he therefore, at that juncture, 
abandoned it, and took a commission in the 
United States army. 

" After spending a few weeks in the recruiting 
service at Philadelphia, he proceeded to the 
northwestern territory, and joined his regiment 
at Fort Washington, a few days after St. Clair's 
defeat. He was then but nineteen years of 
age; a stripling, to appearance wretchedly qua- 
lified to endure the fatigue of a campaign ia 
the wilderness. 

" His first enterprise was with a detachment 
of twenty men, ordered to escort some pack- 
horses to Fort Hamilton. It was attended with 
great dangers and privations, but was executed 
so satisfactorily as to draw from General Su 
Clair the warmest public thanks. 

" Soon after. General St. Clair returned to 
Philadelphia, and Wilkinson took command in 



But Mr. Niles,*of Connecticut, the late well his place. The year following (1792) was 
known United States senator, and at this pre- 1 occupied in raising and disciplining a nevsr 



sent moment the Van Buren candidate for 
governor of that commonwealth, has " written 
a book," which comprises a condensed biogra- 
phy of the people's candidate for the presidency ! 
"0 that mine enemy had written a book !" and 
here we have it. Truly, considering the rela- 
tive position of the parties, it is a rare curiosity, 
worthy the attention of the politico-literary 
D'Israelis of the day. We commend it for the 
especial perusal of the editor of the Globe, who 
holds Mr. Niles in the highest consideration ; 
for he has told us that Mr. Niles "speaks as 
Dr. Franklin wrote." 

The book to which we refer bears the fol- 
lowing title: 

"The Life of Oliver Hazard Perry, with an 



army, which descended the Ohio and encamped 
near Cincinnati, in June, 1793, under com- 
mand of General Wayne. Here Harrison 
joined them, and was ajipointed second aid-de- 
camp to the commander-in-chief and from that 
place they marched to Greenville and took up 
winter-quarters. In June, 1794, they took up 
a line of march against the Indians, and on the 
20th of August, came into an engagement with 
them at the foot of the Miami Itapids, and soon 
routed them. Here Harrison acted a conspi- 
cuous part, and acquitted himself with honour. 
This battle had the desired effei;t; the Indians 
sued for peace, and a treaty w as effected tho 
year following. 

" In 1795 he was commission! !d captain, and 



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in the autumn of the same year, married a | 
daughter of John Clceves Symmes, Esq., a 
judge of the northwestern territory. General 
Wayne having retired to the Atlantic states, 
left him in command of Fort Wasliington, 
where he continued un'il 1797, and, as the 
covmtry was at peace, retired from the army, 
and was soon afterwards appointed Secretary 
of the northwestern territory. 

"In the year 1790, he was sent delegate to 
Congress from that territory, and at the forma- 
tion of the Indiana territory, was appointed first 
governor of it, to the capital of which (Vin- 
cennes) he removed with his family, in 18(Jl. 

"The civil administration of General Harri- 
son, although not marked with such brilliant 
circumstances as his military operations, was, 
notwithstanding, managed with equal judg- 
ment. 

"At the celebrated battle of Tippecanoe, in 
1811, General Harrison, as governor, was, at 
the head of the troops and directed the action, 
•wliich terminated in completely routing the 
Indians, and of destroying a treacherous and 
formidable conspiracy against the territory. 

"The war with Great Britain gave him an- 
other opportunity of displaying his military 
character. At the capture of General Hull 
and his army, and the surrender of the Michi- 
gan territory, in 1812, General Harrison was 
called to the command of the northwestern 
army, and ordered to collect what forces he 
could, and if possible to advance to Detroit 
and reduce Maiden during that fall. Accord- 
ingly he hastened to the frontier, and after 
surmounting the greatest difficulties, arrived at 
the foot of the Miami Rapids. A premature 
movement had, however, been made by General 
Winchester, and which ended in the defeat and 
capture of himself and army. In consequence, 
all hopes of eflecting the objects of the cam- 
paign, during that season, were at an end. He 
therefore took up winter quarters on the Miami, 
at Fort Meigs, where he was attacked in the 
spring by the British army, under General 
Proctor, with a force vastly superior. The 
British general opened his batteries and con- 
tinued firing from the 1st to the 5lh of August, 
and finding it impossible to carry on the siege 
to effect, made a precipitate retreat, on the 9th. 
General Harrison's army being augmented to 
about three thousand five hundred, he prepared 
to follow the enemy, and passing Maiden and 
Detroit, which they had abandoned, crossed the 
Thames at Arnold's Mills, and soon after came 
into engagement. His backwood's horsemen 
were drawn up, and charged the enemy's line 
at full speed. This had the desired effect ; 
their ranks were immediately broken, and the 
army surrendered to General Harrison, General 
Proctor having made his escape with a few 
dragoons and mounted Indians. 

" The defence of Fort Meigs, and the subse- 
quent capture of the British army, may be fairly 
considered the most brilliant and extraordinary 
events of the late war. 



"These were his last military achievements. 
A treaty of peace was concluded with Great 
Britain, and his services being no longer wanted, 
he retired, with ' blushing honours thick upon 
him,' to the bosom of his friends, and to the 
enjoyment of domestic happiness." 

In the body of the work, Mr. Niles alhiden 
to the successful battle of the Thames, and 
eulogises the gallant conduct of General Har- 
rison and his troops in the following terms : — 

" It is admitted that the American forces 
considerably exceeded those of the enemy ; but 
when it is considered that the latter had chosen 
their own position — that they had taken one 
peculiarly favourable for defence, effectually 
securing their flanks, it being impossible to turn 
them, and that the Americans could present a 
line no more extended than that of the enemy, 
which was too limited to admit of the active 
employment of all their troops, and when it is 
further considered, that the troops were almost 
entirely militia, it niu»t he conceded that this 
victory reflected great honour upon the national 
arms, and upon the troops by whom it was 
achieved. 

" The action and the movetnents which pre- 
ceded it, afford ample testimony of the judg- 
ment, and cool intrepidity of General Harrison; 
and, indeed, all the events of the campaign 
support these characteristics : the disasters at- 
tending it, having in no instance been imputa- 
ble to him. 

" There are, perhaps, on record few instances 
of such cool and steady intrepidity on the part 
of militia, or a force of this description, as was 
displayed on this occasion. 

" The victory of the Thames was not more 
honourable in its character, than important in 
its consequences. It terminated tlie war on the 
northwestern frontier; which during fifteen 
months had been drenched in blood and stained 
with crimes ; thousands of the most patriotic 
sons of the west, having fallen victims to its 
ravages and disasters. The savage war-yell was 
heard no more — and the frightful tomahawk no 
longer reeked with the blood of innocence, in- 
fancy, and age. 

" Harrison and Perry left Detroit in the Ariel, 
and arrived at Erie en the 22d of October. 
Here they were received with every demonstra- 
tion of joy and admiration, the discharge of 
cannon, illuminations, &c. They were hailed 
as the deliverers of the frontiers." 

For the purpose of recommending the work 
to the public confidence, and of gaining for it 
tlie character of being a valuable and enduring 
contribution to the common stock of American 
history, Mr. Niles remarks in the preface : — 

"The facts and materials which the work 
comprises, have been derived from authentic 
sources, and whatever may be thought of it in 
other respects, it is humbly believed, that so far 
as industry in research, and care in compilation, 
can insure historic correctness and accuracy of 
detail, it possesses these essential character- 
istics." 



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From the Baltimore Patriot. 
JOHN C. CALHOUN MY JO. 

A COMIC POLITICAL BONO. 

Tune — ''John Anderson my Jo." 

John C. Calhoun my Jo John, I'm sorry for 
your fate, 

You've nullified the tariff laws, you've nullified 
your state ; 

You've nullified your party, John, and prin- 
ciples, you know. 

And now you've nulUfied yourself, John C. Cal- 
houn ray Jo. 

O ! John, how could you look into the face of 

Henry Clay 1 
The glory of the Western World and of the 

world away ; 
You call'd yourself his " master," John, but that 

can ne'er be so, 
For he " would not own you for a slave," John 

C. Calhoun my Jo. 

The Father of the Tariff, John, and Patron of 
the Arts, 

He seeks to build his country up in spite of fo- 
reign parts ; 

And Harrison will soon upset the little Van &; 
Co. 

And renovate the Ship of State, John C. Cal- 
houn my Jo. 

John C. Calhoun my Jo John, ambition in de- 
spair 

Once made you nullify the whole, the halfoi it 
to share ; 

The " whole hog now you've gone," John, with 
Kendall, Blair & Co. 

But "you've got the wrong sow by the ear," 
John C Calhoun my Jo. 

American mechanics, John, will never sell their 

votes 
For Mint Drops or for Treasury Bills, or even 

British coats; 
They want no English coaches, John, white 

servants they forego, 
For their carriage is of Yankee stamp, John C. 

Calhoun my Jo, 

0! John, he is a slippery blade with whom 

you've got to deal. 
He'll pass between your clutches too, just like 

a living eel ; 
You think he'll r^cnmmend you, John, but Van 

will ne'er do so. 
For he wants the fishes for himself, John C. 

Calhoun my Jo. 

John C. Calhoun my Jo John, if this you dare 
to doubt, 

Go ask the Living Skeleton who deals his se- 
crets out, 

His favourites are mark'd, John, the mark you 
cannot toe. 

And you'll soon repent the bargain made, John 
C. Calhoun my Jo. 



This is a dirty business, John, go wash your 

little hands. 
And never bow your knee again to cunning 

Van's commands; 
" How you are off for soap," John, I cannot 

say I know. 
But " your mother does not know you're out," 

John C. Calhoun my Jo. 

The brave sons of the South, John, will never 

own you more. 
And Benton's Mint Drops will not save — you're 

rotten to the core ; 
The People will no power, John, on such as 

you bestow. 
And you've jump'd your final somerset, Jo'un 

C. Calhoun my Jo, 

John C. Calhoun my Jo John, you'll ride with 
Uttle Van, 

From yonder Whited Sepulchre, with all its 
motley clan ; 

The journey will be long, John, now mind I 
tell you so. 

For they never can return again, John C. Cal- 
houn my Jo. 

Then better men, my Jo John, our sad affairs 
will fix. 

Republicans in principle, the Whigs of Seven- 
ty-six ; 

The offices they'll purge, John, Swartwouters 
all will go. 

And sycophantic fellows too, John C. Calhoun 
my Jo. 

The Farmer of North Bend, John, will plough 
the weeds away, 

And the terror of Tecumseh then will gain an- 
other day, 

America will flourish, John, mechanics find 
employ, 

And our merchants will rejoice indeed, John 
C. Calhoun my Jo. 

John C Calhoun my Jo John, when one term 

shall expire, 
He'll drop the reigns of power and with dignity 

retire, 
To look upon a smiling land, that he has ren- 

der'd so, 
And every Whig will cry AMEN ! John C. 

Calhoun my Jo. Milford Bard. 

Poet's Garret, Baltimore, January 1840. 



Most loved by those who know him best : — 

GENERAL HARRISON AT HOME. 

General Rufus Hodges, in the Providence 
(R. I.) Journal of the 1 7th of January, gives 
the followmg interei=ting account of the next 
Republican President of the United States. 
Cincinnati, Dec. 23, 1839 

Dear Sir, — I have received your favour of 
the 12ih instant, in which you allude to tba 



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nomination of Genera! Harrison as the candi- 1 
date for the Presidency, and ask me to give you | 
some statements, in regard to the daily uvoca- I 
tions and domestic habits of that distinguished I 
man. I comply with your request witii great I 
pleasure. Having resided near him for about 
twelve years, and for a greater part of that 
period having been on terms of intimate ac- 
quaintance with him, I think I may speak with 
confidence on the points to which you refer. 

I will premise by stating my full belief, that 
General Harrison in his character, tastes, and 
habits, combines more of the elements of the 
true Democratic Kepiiblican, than any person 
who has been a candidate for that office since 
the establishment of the government. 

His residence is in the southwest corner of 
the state of Ohio, at the junction of the Big 
Miami and Ohio rivers, quite remote and seclu- 
ded from the bustle of the political world. 
There he has constantly resided since he closed 
his service as Major-general in the American 
army of the last war, excepting the periods 
when he was absent as Senator and Represen- 
tative in Congress, from Ohio, and on a foreign 
mission. He resides upon his farm, which is 
handsome and well cultivate(]. This he culti- 
vates himself, and from which he draws the 
subsistence of himself and family. He em- 
ploys from two to four hands in the cultivation 
of his land, and with these workmen he may be 
generally found, from sunrise in the morning, 
to the close of the labours of the day in the 
evening. He is among the most industrious 
and active of men. Within the last six months, 
I heanl him declare he did not recollect that 
" his head had been found upon his piUuw at 
sunrise for the hid forty years." For industry, 
plain, unaffected simplicity of life, and a hearty 
devotion to the pursuits of agriculture, you 
may find many aoiong the respectable farmers 
of Rhode Island not unlike him. 

His dwelling corresponds with the severe 
simplicity of the man in other respects. It is a 
common two story building, very plain in its 
structure and furniture, and sudiciently ample 
only, to accommodate his family and friends 
who visit him. But, though his accommoda- 
tions are so plain, he is among the most hospita- 
ble of men, always happy to see and welcome 
his friends, and I believe his house is seldom 
found without company. He spreads before his 
guests a plentiful board, but it is the table of a 
respectable Ohio farmer, almost wholly suppli- 
ed from his own farm. 

His dress and general deportment are in per- 
fect keeping witii his character in other respects. 
It is said that " the dress oft bespeaks the man." 
If by this be meant, that fine and rich clothing 
proclaims the great man, surely by this rule, Gen. 
Harrison has no claims to greatness. But, 
judging from his dress, you would s ly, " the 
man so clad is not afraid to handle the plough, 
the spade, or any other implement of husband- 
ry." Nothing can exceed his uniform affability. 
A soldier-like ease and openness of manner 



characterize his intercourse with all, and he has 
the happy talent of placing all who approach 
him, at entire ease — a circumstance which ren- 
ders him peculiarly popular with the labouring 
classes. 

The open-handed liberality and benevolence 
of Harrison, are proverbial, wherever he is 
known. Ho is ever the poor man's friend ; and 
his amiable disposition, to benefit and befriend 
others, has often been indulged, it is believed, to 
his own detriment. And in all the relations of 
life, he has ever been found the very impersona- 
tion of honour and integrity. No man living 
has more indissolubly attached to his name, 
than he, the application of " THE HONEST 
MAN." 

General Harrison enjoys fine health, which 
has been his happy fortune through life. He 
is thin in person, walks erect, and moves brisk- 
ly ; and has less of the indication of age, than 
is usual in persons of his years. He retains 
his hair, which is a little silvered ; but he has a 
stiifness in his limbs, said to have been caused 
by exposure to the severities of winter, on our 
northwestern frontier, during the last war. 
He has as fine an eye as you ever beheld. It 
is what physiognomists, I suppose, would pro- 
nounce the eye of genius — bright, quick, and 
piercing. 



(From a volume published by a French Tourist 
in 1825.) 

GENERAL HARRISON. 

" Are you personally acquainted, sir, with 
General Harrison 1" 

" Begar, sare, I have the grand satisfactiong, 
to have the p'aisare, sare, to have the grand in 
troductiong, sare, to the brave hero and citizen. 
I make you introductiong, sare, to dis gentle- 
homme, who vill tell you de grand story of de 
old Shenerall and de wood leg soldiare. Aid 
foi ! it is ver good." 

" With great pleasure, sir, I will relate it," 
said a very respectable looking gentleman in 
black, who I afterwards understood was a cler- 
gyman. " It was in the year 1820, if my me- 
mory is correct, that I was travelling in Ohio, 
with the view of purchasing a tract of land for 
my son, when I fell in with a gentleman who 
was a stranger, and whom I found a very intel- 
ligent and agreeable companion. A thunder 
storm drove us into a neat log cabin, a little dis- 
tance from the road side, for shelter, where we 
found a house full of children, a sick and very 
interesting looking woman lying on a humble 
but clean looking bed, and a young, pretty mai- 
den sitting near. The husband and father, with 
a wooden leg and a deep scar across his brow 
was bending over the bed and pressing the 
hand of the sick woman between both of his. 
His eyes were intently f:xed on a young infant, 
apparently a few months old. The whole 
group had been indulging in tears, and I saw 
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the young damsel, as she sat listening appa- 
rently to some tale of woe which her father 
told. Their tears were suddenly wiped away 
as we approached, and we were given a cordial 
welcome. 

" ' You seem to be in distress,' said the stran- 
ger, my companion. 

" ' I have faced the enemies of my country,' 
said the host, as he swung his wooden leg 
round to close the door, ' and I have felt all the 
pangs and privations of a military life ; hut all 
this was nothing compared v\'ith what I have 
suffered to-day.' 

" Strtiii'rer. Pardon me if I ask the cause ; 
for I will relieve you, if it lies in my power. 

" Host. My wife is afflicted with an inter- 
nal disease which renders it dangerous lo move 
her ; yet for a debt which I cannot immediately 
raise, the man who is agent for another de- 
clares that if I do not pay it before to-morrow 
at twelve o'clock, he will seize what little I pos- 
sess, and turn us all out to the mercy of the 
elements. I can neither raise the sum by that 
time, nor obtain a shelter for my poor wife and 
children, who must perish to gratify the ma- 
lice of a man whose heart is a stranger to 
mercy. 

" The whole fainily melted into tears as he 
concluded, and even the soldier himself, who 
had faced the cannon's mouth, could not refrain 
from weeping. 

" Stranger. You have fought the battles of 



the country 1 May I be inquisitive in ask- 
ing— 

" Hust. Oh ! yes, I fought under the brave 
Harrison at the glorious battle of Tippecanoe, 
and in .ither battles. I speak of him with 
pride, for I have seen his sword glittering in 
the thickest of the fight. 

" Stranger. Would you know him were 
you to see him ] 

" Hust. (Gazing in his face.) You resemble 
him very nuich. Were he to know my suffer- 
ings, he would instantly assist me. I have seen 
him do many generous deeds. 

" Stranger. Where did you lose your leg ? 

" Hust. It was shattered by a ball at the 
victory of the Thames. 

" Stranger. Well, my brave fellow, make 
your mind easy ; a hair of your head shall not 
bo itijured. You now see your General before 
you, and as you have fought for me and your 
country, I will now protect you and your 
family at the risk of my life. 

" A sudden blaze of joy seemed to run from 
heart to heart; the soldier clasped General 
Harrison in his arms, while the children press- 
ed his hand with affection. ' W^e shall be 
saved from ruin,' cried the pale wife. 

"The General found the owner of the land 
on which the soldier lived, and never rested 
until he made the poor fellow a right to it. He 
also discharged the debt, and a happier fainily 
I never beheld." 



THE LOG CABIN AND HARD CIDER CANDIDATE. 

General Harrison, when parting from a regiment of his soldiers, just after the Indian war, 
said to them: — 'Gentlemen, if you ever come to Vincennes, you will always find a plate and a 
Icnifc and fork at my table ; and I assure you that you will 7iever find my duor shut and the 
airing of the latch, pulled m." 




The above represents the veteran HARRISON, as he now lives, a Private Citizen, in the act 
of welcoming an old soldier into his Cabin, where he had some friends at dinner. He intro- 
duced him thus: — " Gentlemen, here is one of my old comrades who has done battle for his 
country, and he will take a seat with us at table." The soldier, thus introduced, was received 
with open arms and joyful hearts, by the company. 



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47 



Manifestations of popular favour towards 
General Harrison, during the war, Oct. 1813. 
— Mr. Richmond Inquirer Ritchie, have yuu 
forgotten those rejoicings ? 

ONE OF HARRISON'S VICTORIES. 

We continue our evidences of the natinnal 
enthusiasm with which the news of Harri.-on's 
victory over the combined British and Indians 
under Proctor and Tecumseh, at the Thames, 
in Upper Canada, was received by the people, 
in 1813. The following extracts from the ac-' 
counts of three d'liVercnti/luminalions, are taken 
from Niles' Register, of October 30th, 1813, 

THE LATE ILLUMINATIONS. 
In PItiladelphia. 

Agreeable to permission granted by the 
Mayor, the capture of General Proctor's army 
by the United States army under General 
HARRISON, was celebrated in this city on 
the evening of the 3 1 st October, by a hrilliiinf 
illumination. The suburbs also exhibited their 
usual degree of patriotic feeling, and even the 
town of Camden [opposite] was lit up. 

The transparencies in different parts of the 
city were so numerous, that it would be a vain 
task to attempt a particular description of them 
— we shall therefore notice a few only without 
any design, however, to disparage others. 

The most conspicuous we saw, were those 
of the house of Jicob G. Koch, corner of Ninth 
and Market streets. The Market street front, 
presented five different transparencies, in front 
of as many large windows. 

The basement story presented two ; the 
western window contained a shaft of a fluted 
Doric column, round which was a scroll, con- 
taining a phrase from General HARRISON'S 
official letter — "// has pleased Providence ,■" on 
the summit of the sliaft was a bust, with a 
scroll above, inscribed "H.\RRISON." 

On the window adjacent was a similar shaft, 
with a scroll containing the sentence from 
Commodore Perry's letter — " It has pleased 
the Almli^hty," and on the summit a bust pre- 
sented by the scroll, inscribed " Peiiuy." 

At New York. 

On Saturday evening, October 23d, pursuant 
to a resolution of the common council, the city 
hall was illuminated in honour of the recent 
successes of the American arms in Upper Ca- 
nada. That magnificent structure, by far the 
most splendid pile of Architecture in Ame- 
rica, and not exceeded by many in Europe, 
was lighted throughout its spacious front, 
(comprising upwards of fifty windows and 
divisions in the portico) to the tower or cupola 
on the centre, as well as in its extensive wings, 
containing about thirty windows. The trans- 
parent naval paintings used at the former cele- 
bration in the City Hotel were here displayed, 
■with the addition of the dying injunction of 
the gallant Lawrence, '■'■dDiiU sive up the ship." 

Tammany Hull next claimed the attention 



of the thousands of admiring spectators. Over 
the princi[ial entrance of this building was ex- 
hibited a well executed and emblematic transpa- 
rency, painted by Mr. Holland, representing the 
Indian chiefs surrondering to General Hauri- 
soN, soliciting peace, and delivering -their 
women and children as hostages, with a view 
of the battle of Lake Erie, and Commodore 
Perry leaving his ship for the Niagara. 

At Richmond. 
The illumination in this city on Monday 
evening last was by far the most splendid we 
have ever witnessed, and in every respect 
suited to the occasion. Before the sable clouds 
of niirht had enveloped the city in darkness, 
the illumination commenced, and the names 
of "H.iRitisdN, Perry, and CJiauncej/" soon 
shone with distinguished lustre in every quarter. 
Every thing like base, sordid avarice, yielded to 
the finer feelings of patriotism ; and, with few 
exceptions, a just sensibility pervaded every 
bosom. Many transparent and appropriate 
paintings presented themselves to the view; but 
it would be invidious to notice the exertions of 
any particular individual, where all performed 
their duty. To cmwn the climax, and give a 
zest to joy, the ladies of Richmond were seen 
descending in lovely groups, from Shockoe Hill 
to the main street, there to ornament and em- 
bellish the scene. The most perfect harmony 
and good order prevailed, and the ladies roamed 
about in full security, free and undisturbed. I;« 
short, but one sentiment seemed to exist ; the 
sunshine of joy and exultation illuminated 
every countenance, and none was found 

"So lost to virtue, lost to manly thought,'' 

as to dare interrupt this delightful banquet of 
the mind by the least improper conduct. To 
be sure, the civil authority, much to their credit, 
took every necessary step to prevent disorderly 
behaviour ; but we rejoice to say sensual plea- 
sures v\'ere forgotten, while the names of "Har- 
uisoN, Perry, and Cltauncey," dwelt on every 
tongue. At nine the streets were generally 
clear of the crowd, and at ten o'clock, agreeably 
to the mayor's request, every light was extin- 
guished. 



REDUCTION OF WAGES. 

We have before had occasion to refer to the 
"Pennsylvania German," a weekly journal, 
devoted to the democratic cause of HAniusox 
and Ttleii, and conducted by F. J. Grund. 
Esq., a gentleman of extensive literary reputa- 
tion, both in this country and Europp. T.'ie 
following admirable article is taken from the 
last number of that paper. We commend it 
to the attention of our workingmen. 
Mr. Buchanan's remarks on the sub-treasury, 

" In Germany," says Mr. Buchanan, "where 
the currency is purely metallic and the cost of 



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every thing REDUCED to a hard money stan- 
dard a piece of broadcloth can be manufactured 
for fifteen dollars; the manufacture of which, in 
our country, from the ex|)ansion of paper cur- 
rency, would cost one hundred dollars. What 
is the consequence ] The foreign French and 
German manufacturer imports this cloth into 
our country, and sells it for a hundred dollars. 
Does not every person perceive that the redun- 
dancy of our currency is equal to a premium 
of one hundred per cent, in favour of the fo- 
reign manufacturer 1" 

jbid again .• 

"The comparative LOW PRICES of 
France and Germany have afforded such a 
stimulus to their manufacturers, that they are 
now rapidly extending themselves, and would 
obtain possession, in no small degree, even of 
the Entrlish home market, IF IT WERE 
.NOT FOR THEIR PROTECTIVE DU- 
TIES, While British manufacturers are now 
languishing, those of the continent are spring- 
ing into a healthy and vigorous existence." 

We would request the Hon. Mr. Buchanan 
to inquire a little more deeply into German 
history and political economy, before he com- 
mits himself, on the floor of Congress, with 
such wholesale absurdities as the above. If the 
Germans manuftcture broadcloths and other 
articles cheaper than the Americans, it is not 
owing to the hard-money cuhrenct; but to 
the excessive competition of labour, which not 
only reduces the price of goods, but also that of 
living below the standard of the United States. 
A man may live in some parts of Germany on 
eight hundred dollars a year and keep a car- 
riage ; but does this cheapness enrich the me- 
chanic or the husbandman ] Suppose a Ger- 
man earns twelve and a half cents a day, and 
is able to live on ten cents ; and an American, 
owing to the high price of every thing, earns a 
dollar, but requires eighty cents to live upon, 
which of the two will be better off in the end 1 
Will the American, in course of time, not be 
able to buy out the German 1 And as for the 
hard-inuney currtncy, which the honourable 
senator lays such a stress upon, does he not 
know that the two largest German states, Prus- 
sia and Austria, Aci'e a paper currency; the 
Prussian Tresor-sckeine being in circulation all 
over Germany, and the notes of the Austrian 
National Bank, equivalent to cash from the 
Rhine to the Danube 1 The fact is, that the 
great stimulus given to the industry of the 
Germans, by the Tariff-union, the wisest and 
best measure that ever emanated from the cabi- 
net of Berlin, has, in every pare of Germany, 
80 far increased the demand for a convenient 
medium of exchange as to call a number of 
provincial banks into existence, which now 
flourish in the principal towns of Germany. 
Did not the English, with their flush paper 
currency, undersell the Germans in their 
own marts at Leipsic and Frankfort on the 
Maine, in spite of the hard currency of the 
latter, iintil the wisdom of the King of Prussia 



protected the German manufacturer, through 
the medium of the tariff lkague, from the 
dangerous and fearful competition of Great Bri- 
tain. And what is the moral Mr. Buchanan and 
his confreres wish to draw from these facts, which 
ought to speak in a voice of thunder to the 
American mechanic and labourer? Why, just 
the reverse of that which every reasonable man 
would draw from it, viz, : Let'a have an exclu- 
sive SPECIE CUUUENCr, AXD AWAY WITH THE 
TARIFF ! 



Another hitter pill iot Petticoat Allen, znil 
all the other vile traducers and base calumnia- 
tors of the gallant Harrison. 

From the Philadelpliia Port-Folio of 1S12, an ad- 
mirably comluctBii periodical, devoled exclusively 
to literature, and disconnected altogether from folities. 

BAT'J'LE OF TIPPECANOE. 

Awake I awake ! my gallant friends. 
To arms ! to arms! the foe is nigh ; 

The sentinel his warning sends ; 

And, hark ! the treacherous savage cry. 

Awake! to arms! the word goes round; 

The drum's deep roll, the fife's shrill sound. 

The trumpet's blast, proclaim through night. 

An Indian band, a bloody fight. 

haste thee, Baen ! alas ! too late; 

A red chief's arm now aims the blow; 
(An early, but a glorious fate!) 

The tomahawk has laid thee low. 
Dread darkness reigns. On, Daviess, on! 
Where's Boyd ? And VALIANT HARRISON, 
Commander of the Christian force ? 
And Owen? He's a bleeding corse. 

" Stind, comrades brave, stand to your posts : 
Here Wells and Floyd, and Barton : all 

Must now be won, or must be lost: 
Ply briskly, bayonet, sword and ball." 

Thus spoke the general ; when a yell 

Was heard, as though a hero fell. 

And, hark ! the Indian whoop again — 

It is f3r daring Daviess slain ! 

I fearful is the battle's rage ; 

No lady's hand is in the fray ; 
But brawny limbs the contest wage, 

And struggle for the victor's day. 
Lo I Spencer sinks, and Warwick's slain, 
And breathless bodies strew the plain ; 
And yells, and groans, and clang, and roar, 
Echo along the Wabash shore. 

But mark ! where breaks upon tlie eye 
Aurora's beam. The coming day 

Shall foil a frantic prophecy. 

And Christian valour well display. 

Ne'er did Constanline's soldiers see, 

With more of joy for victory, 

A cross the arch of heaven adorn, 

Than these the blushing of the morn. 



TIPPECA?^OE ALMANAC. 



49 



Bold Boyd led on his steady band, 

With bristling bayont-ts burnish'd bright: 
Wliat could their dauntless charge withstand 1 

What stay the warriors' matchless rnight? 
Rushing amain, they clcar'd the field, 
The savage foe constrain'd to yield 
To Hakkison, who juar and far, 
Gave FORM and spihit to the wAn. 

Sound, sound the charge! spur — spur the steed, 
And swift the fugitives pursue — . 

'Tis vain : rein in — your utmost speed 
Could not o'ertake the recreant crew. 

In lowland marsh, in dell, or cave. 

Each Indian sought his life to save; 

Whence, peering forth with fear and ire, 

He saw his Prophet's town on fire. 

Now, the great Eagle of the West 

Triumphant wing was seen to wave ; 
And now each soldier's manly breast 

Sigh'd o'er his fallen comrade's grave. 
Some dropp'd a tear, and mused the while, 
Then join'd in measured march their file ; 
And here and there cast wistful eye. 
That might surviving friend descry. 

But let a foe again appear. 

Or east, or west, or south, or north, 

The soldier then shall dry his tear, 
And fearless, gayly sally forth. 

With lightning eye, and warlike front; 

He'll meet the battle's deadly brunt; 

Come Gaul or Briton, if array 'd 

For fight — he'll feel a freeman's blade. 



Hear an old soldier, who would not suffer his com- 
mander to be traduced with impunity : — 

REMARKS OF MR. POLLOCK, 

Of Muskinghum, Ohio, in reply to some re- 
marks made by Messrs. Buchanan and 
Flood, during the dtbate in the Ohio Legis- 
lature, on Monday the 27th ultimo. 
Mn. Spkakeh : — I have listened to the de- 
bate with much patience. I have heard abuse 
heaped upon General Harrison, by men who are 
comparatively young, and although I am un- 
accustomed to speech making, I hope the House 
will bear with me for a few moments, for I 
shall not trouble it long. I shall only reply 
to some particular matters. I shall not deal in 
generals, we have too many of them already. 
Sir, I have heard members of this House charge 
General Harrison with cowardice, whom he de- 
fended and protected from the war-knife and 
tomahawk of the Indian, when they were sleep- 
ing in their mothers' arms. 

Mr. Speaker, — I know something of General 
Ha'rison ; and something of his history ; and 
something of his deeds. I know individuals 
who were with him during the last war ; who 
were with him in the battle of the Thames, 
Fort Meigs, and Fort Stephenson. I know, 
sir, that cannon balls, and chain shot, and bomb 
shells, flew thick around him in these battles. 
7 



The gentleman from Clermont, (Mr. Bucha- 
nan,) said that General Harrison was not du- 
ring the battle of Fort Meigs, near enough to 
have the scales knocked off, he was near enough 
to have the scales and din knocked on him by 
cannon balls. ("Who saw it]" asked some 
member.) I saw it, sir. I was in the battle. 
I saw a cannon ball strike within two feet of 
General Harrison during the fight. I was 
there. I saw bomb shells flying all aro\nid him. 
Horses were shot down under him, and he was 
in the hottest and hardest of the figlit; and 
where balls fiew thickest, and where steel met 
steel the fiercest, there would you find General 
Harrison. 

I speak what I know, and what my eyes have 
seen. General Harrison is not a coward ; and 
those who call him coward know nothing of 
him. He was a brave, prudent, and fearless 
general. He took the right course, during the 
last war — he acted a noble part, and his coun- 
try has honoured him for it. Ask the soldiers 
who fought by his side ; whose arms were 
nerved by his presence ; whose hearts were 
cheered by his valour ; and who were led to tri- 
umph and to victory by his courage, and brave- 
ry, and skill, if General Harrison was a coward 
— and they, sir, will tell you, no ! 

Sir, I have done, I only wished to give my 
testimony in favour of General Harrison, and 
to state what I have seen, in opposition to the 
statements of those who are ignorant of his 
character, and who know nothing of his brave- 
ry and skill. 



WANTED, 



An experienced and skilful "granny" to deliver 
our young and beautiful mother, of a nest of vipers, 
who are preying upon her vitals, and hurrying her to 
a premature grave : — 

Some incidents in the Life of an " Old 
Granny." 

In the years 1774, 177.5, and 1776, there 
was an ' old granny,' named Benjamin Harri- 
son, who was a member of Congress, and after- 
wards Governor of Virginia ; he was one ot 
the fifty-six 'old grannies' who signed the De- 
claration of Independence; he died, leaving but 
little property, for he was an ' old granny,' and 
devoted hiitiself to his country with so much 
zeal in these stirring times, that he did not, hke 
the more sensible office-holders of our day, ac- 
quire a fortune out of public employments. He 
died, leaving a son named William Henry Har- 
rison, who was pursuing his studies at Hamp- 
den Sidney College, when the Indian frontier 
wars broke out. Young Harrison was placed 
under the care of an ' old granny,' named Ro- 
bert Morris, and was a protege and favourite of 
another ' old granny,' named George Washing- 
ton, both of whom, like the father of Harrison, 
had spent their lives in the active service of 
their country. Being the son of an ' old gran- 
ny,' and having been brought up under the tutel- 
age of the two 'old grannie^' above named, i| 



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cannot be thought surprising that young Harri- 
son grew up to be an ' old granny' himself. 

In 1793, Harrison joined the army under 
Wayne, and that general, being also an ' old 
granny,' appointed the younp, volunteer as one 
of his aides-de-camp. In 1797, he resigned 
his commission, and was appointed Secretary 
of the Northwestern Territory. The year after, 
he was elected delegate to Congress. 

Here he did a thing which alone would es- 
tablish his inferiority to the present enlightened 
race of office-holders. The public lands were 
then divided into sections of four thousand 
acr&«;, and were never sold in less quantity than 
a whole section. — Consequently, a man who 
wished to buy a farm for actual settlement, was 
obliged to buy four thousand acres at the go- 
vernment price, or to purchase a smaller quan- 
tity of some speculator, whose means would 
allow him to hold a whole section : — the price, 
of course, in such cases, was far beyond that 
of the government lands. Being nothing but 
an ' old granny,' Harrison never for a moment 
considered how much superior the interests of a 
few speculators were, to those of the people at 
large, he obtained the passage of an act allow- 
ing sales of as small a quantity as three hun- 
dred and twenty acres, which brought it within 
the means of almost every man. 

The following year this ' old granny' was 
appointed Governor of the territory of Indiana, 
which is now divided into several large States. 
He was appointed repeatedly, at the request of 
the inhabitants, and held the office for fourteen 
years. During this time, he was superintend- 
ent of Indian Affairs within the jurisdiction, 
and sole Commissioner for treating with the 
Indians. During this time the ' old granny' 
negotiated thirteen treaties with the Indian 
tribes, for which services, being an ' old granny,' 
he never made the government any charge. 
The battle of Tippecanoe, and the overthrow 
of the Pawnee Chiefs, were considered very re- 
spectable service for an ' old granny,' and in 
ih'ase days were thought to give a man some 
claim upon the gratitude of his country. 

In 1812, when war was declared against Great 
Britain, this ' old granny' was placed in com- 
mand of a large number of volunteers to pro- 
tect the Indiana territory, and was afterwards ap- 
pointed Commander-in-chief of the Northwest- 
ern army. His conduct of that war — his turn- 
ing the tide of disaster, and raising in triumph 
and victory the sinking flag of his country, the 
recovery of Michigan, the battle of the Thames, 
which destroyed the British array of Upper 
Canada, were also thought very considerable 
services for an 'old granny.' 

After resigning his commission, this ' old 
granny' was again appointed Commissioner to 
treat with the Indians. In 1815, he was elected 
a member of the Lower House of Congress, 
and in 1824 he was elected a Senator in Con- 
gress'', from the State of Ohio. In 1828, he 
was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Bo- 
gota, by John Quincy Adams, the 'old granny' 



who lately presided over the House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

No man in this country ever possessed such 
opportunities for making a fortune out of his 
official station, especially by land speculations ; 
from his position in the Territory of Indiana, 
and from his knowledge of the country — of its 
situation, resources, and growing importance — 
he could have easily obtained possession of 
tracts of land, the natural rise in the value of 
which would have made him as rich as a Girard 
or an Astor. But he was an ' old granny,' and 
having been educated in the school of such an 
' old granny' as George Washington, he could 
not be supposed to know as much as the land re- 
ceivers and other office-holders of our day, who 
get rich on the plunder of the treasury, and then 
resign their offices and nominate their succes- 
sors. So General Harrison retired from office 
as poor as he was when he entered it, and now 
like a second Cincinnatus ; who, we dare say, 
was also an ' old granny,' he lives by the culti- 
vation of the soil. 

So it appears that William Henry Harrison, 
the ' old granny,' of whom we have been speak- 
ing, has been 

Secretary of the Northwestern Territory, 
Governor for fourteen years of the Territory 
of Indiana, 

Superintendent of the Indian Affairs, 
Commissioner for treating with the Indians, 
Representative in Congress, 
Senator in Congress, 
Major-general in the United States army. 
Commander in the northwestern army m 
the last war, and 

Minister Plenipotentiary to Bogota 
Thus we may see what it takes to make an 
' old granny ;' he is before the people whom he 
has so long and so faithfully served, and has 
been nominated as a candidate for one other 
office, that of President of the United States. 
In the long career of eminent and successful 
public services, he has never been accused of 
one dishonest action ; he stands forth with 
clean hands, a clear head, and an honest heart, 

THE people's candidate FOR PllESIDENT. 

A Roland for an Oliver : — 

A resolution was offered a week or two ago 
in the Kentucky Legislature, that the Governor 
should order a national salute to be fired on the 
8th of January, in commemoration of the battle 
of Nevir Orleans. The resolution was passed, 
but passed with this interesting amendment : 
" Resolved, That the cannon captured from the 
British on the 5th of October, 1813, at the 
battle of the Thames, by General William 
Hknht Hauuison, and his brave companions 
ill arms, be alone used by his Excellency, in 
firing the foregoing salute." 



" The Whig pre^es are perfect nuisances." 
Georgia ConsiituI ionalist. — That's just what 
the horse-thief thought of the sheriff 



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GENERAL HARRISON'S CELEBRATED 
LETTER TO BOLIVAR, IN FAVOUR 
OF CIVIL LIBERTY. 

The following letter was addressed to Bolivar, by 
Cenerai Harrison, after he had taken his leave as 
Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- 
tiary, from the United States to the Republic of Co- 
lombia ; and consequently in the character of a pri- 
Tute citizen. It was suggested by the fi'ar that Roli- 
var would yield to the exigencies of the times and 
assume regal power, by converting the Republican 
government of Colombia into a despotism. Genei'al 
Harrison, however, prompted by that love of liberty 
which has always characterized him, determined, if 
possible, to dissuade him from a design so inimical 
and fatal to the cause of republicanism. 

As introductory to the letter, we extract the follow- 
ing explanatory remarks, from the Tippecanoe Text- 
Book, a most valuable publication, consisting almost 
exclusively of documentary evidence contained in 
Niles's Register, which is admitted as len-al evidence 
in our courts of justice — and which cannot, conse- 
quently, be rejected by the most violent partisans of 
the ^^ spoils party.'' 

In the latter part of the year 1828, Gen- 
eral Harrison was appointed mini.ster pleni- 
potentiary to the republic of Colombia, and 
sailed on his mission the 10th of November, 
from New York, in the United States ship Erie. 
He arrived at Bogota on the 5th of February, 
1829, and presented his credentials on the 27th, 
and was received in the most flattering manner. 
Niles, vol. XXXV. p. 181, and vol. xxxvi. p. 121. 

The official government journal, at Bogota, 
(Niles, vol. xxxvi. p. 134,) on announcing his 
arrival, said : — " We congratulate Colombia on 
beliolding the interest which is manifested by 
the government of the United States, to culti- 
vate the friendly relations with this republic, by 
sending among us so distinguished a citizen as 
General Harrison. The government has full 
confidence that his permanent residence in 
this capital, will contribute generally to strength- 
en the harmony and good understanding which 
happily exist between the two nations." 

General Jackson was inaugurated president 
of the United States on the 4th of March, 
1S29, and on the 8th of that month, or thirty- 
one days after General Harrison reached Bogo- 
ta, he was recalled; and Thomas P. Muorc, of 
Kentucky, appointed his successor. 

The above facts are a sufficient refutation of 
the charge, that he was recalled in consequence 
of his interference in the political aftliirs of 
Colombia; for the government of the United 
States could not have been officially informed 
of his arrival at Bogota at the time the ap- 
pointment was conferred upon Mr. Moore: and 
jI will, also, be seen that General Harrison's 
celebrated letter to Bolivar, inserted in subse- 
<|ueni pages, ivas written more than six months 
after Mr. Moore's appoiiitnient, and not de- 
livered 1(1 Bolivar until General Haivison's offi- 
cial duties had terminated — for Mr. Moore ar- 
rived at Bogota in September, and was pre- 
isented on the 26th of that month, on which 
«lay General Harrison had his audience of leave ; 



and on the next day, when General Harrison 
was a private citizen, the letter was written. 
Bolivar was absent when General Harrison took 
his leave ; but it is evident, from the following 
extract from the address of the council, that 
the most friendly relations existed between him 
and the government, at the time of his depar- 
ture, and that it had no cause to complain of 
his private or official conduct. 

" In expressing to you, sir, the sentiments 
of this council towards your government, it is 
agreeable to me to declare, that the hopes formed 
by Colombia, when the appointment was an- 
nounced of so distinguished a general, and one 
of the most eminent citizens of the oldest re- 
public of America, had been realized by your 
residence in this capital, as envoy extraordina- 
ry and minister pknipotentiary near this go- 
vernment; and therefore it is highly satisfac- 
tory to me to show the high esteem which 
your personal qualities have inspired." 

The following is his letter to Bolivar, which 
has commanded general admiration by the 
beauty and energy of its style, and the sound 
and patriotic admonitions which mark every 
sentence. It is, indeed, a most eloquent appeal 
to the best and most noble feelings of our na- 
ture, and alone should win for the author the 
respect and admiration of every lover of civil 
liberty. 

" Bogota, 27th September, 1829. 

"Sin — If there is any thing in the style, the 
matter, or the object of this letter, whicli is cal- 
culated to give offence to your excellency, I am 
persuaded you will readily forgive it, when you 
reflect on the motives which induced me to 
write it. An old soldier could possess no 
feelings but those of the kindest character to- 
wards one who has shed so much lustre on the 
profession of arms; nor can a citizen of the 
country of M'^ashington cease to wish that, in 
Bolivar, the world might behold another in- 
stance of the highest military attainments, 
united with the purest patriotism, and the great- 
est capacity for civil government. 

Such, sir, have been the fond hopes, not only 
of the people of the United States, but of the 
friends of liberty throughout the world. I will 
not say that your e.Kcellency has formed projects 
to defeat these hopes. But there is no doubt 
that .they have not only been formed, but are, at 
this moment, in progress to maturity, and openly 
avowed by those who possess your entire confi- 
dence. I will not attribute to these men impure 
motives ; but can they be disinterested advi.«ers ? 
.\re they not the verj"^ persons who will gain 
most by the proposed change 1 — who will, in- 
deed, gain all that is to be gained, without 
furnishing any part of the equivalent? That 
that, the price of their future wealth and ho- 
nours, is to be furnished exclusively by yourself? 
And of what does it consist ? Your great cha- 
racter. Such a one, that, if a man were wise, 
and possessed of the empire of the Cssars, in 
its best days, he would give ail to obtain. Are 



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you prepared to make this sacrifice for such an 
object 1 

I am persuaded that those who advocate these 
measures have never dared to induce you to 
adopt them, by any argument founded on your 
personal interests ; and that, to succeed, it would 
be necessary to convince you that no other 
course remained to save the country from the 
evils of anarchy. This is the question, then, 
to be examined. 

Does the history of this country, since the 
adoption of the constitution, really exhibit un- 
equivocal evidence that the people are unfit to 
be freel Is the exploded opinion of a European 
philosopher, of the last age, that " in the new 
hemisphere man is a degraded being," to be re- 
newed, and supported by the example of Colom- 
bia 1 The proofs should, indeed, be strong, to 
induce an American to adopt an opinion so hu- 
miliating. 

Feeling always a deep interest in the success 
of the revolutions in the late Spanish America, 
I have never been an inattentive observer of 
events, pending and posterior to the achieve- 
ment of its independence. In these events, I 
search in vain for a single fact to show that, in 
Colombia at least, the slate of society is unsuited 
to the adoption of a free government. Will it 
be said that a free government did exist, but, 
being found inadequate to the objects for which 
it had been instituted, it has been superseded by 
one of a different character, with the concurrence 
of a majority of the people 1 

It is the most diflficult thing in the world for 
me to believe that a people in the possession of 
their rights as freemen, would ever be willing to 
surrender them, and submit themselves to the 
will of a master. If any such instances are on 
record, the povi'er thus transferred has been in a 
moment of extreme public danger, and then 
limited to a very short period. I do not think 
that it is by any means certain, that the majority 
of the French people favoured the elevation of 
Napoleon to the throne of France. But, if it 
were so, how different were the circumstances 
of that country from those of Colombia, when 
the constitution of Cucuta was overthrown ! 
At the period of the elevation of Napoleon to 
the first consulate, all the powers of Europe 
were the open or secret enemies of France ; civil 
war raged within her borders; the hereditary 
king possessed many partisans in every pro- 
vince; the people, continually betrayed by the 
factions which murdered and succeeded each 
other, had imbibed a portion of their ferocity, 
and every town and village witnessed the in- 
discriminate slaughter of both men and women, 
of all parties and principles. Does the history 
of Colombia, since the expulsion of the Spani- 
ards, present any parallel to these scenes 1 Her 
frontiers have been never seriously menaced ; 
no civil war raged ; not a partisan of the former 
government was to be found in the whole extent 
of her territory ; no factions contended with each 
other for the possession of power; the execu- 
tive government remained in the hands of those 



to whom it had been committed by the people, 
in a fair election. In fact, no people ever passed 
from under the yoke of a despotic government, 
to the enjoyment of entire freedom, with less 
disposition to abuse their newly-acquired power, 
than those of Colombia. They submitted, in- 
deed, to a continuance of some of the most ar- 
bitrary and unjust features which distinguished 
the former g-overnment. If there was any dis- 
position, on the part of the great mass of the 
people, to effect any change in the existing order 
of things ; if the Colombians act from the same 
motives and upon the same principles which 
govern mankind elsewhere, and in all ages, they 
would have desired to take from the government 
a part of the power which, in their inexperi- 
ence, they had confided to it. The monopoly of 
certain articles of agricultural produce, and the 
oppressive duty of llie Alcavala, might have 
been tolerated, until the last of their tyrants 
were driven from the country. But when 
peace was restored, when not one enemy re- 
mained within its borders, it might reasonably 
have been supposed that the people would have 
desired to abolish these remains of arbitrary go- 
vernment, and substitute for them some tax more 
equal and accordant with republican principles. 

On the contrary, it is pretended that they had 
become enamoured with these despotic mea- 
sures, and so disgusted with the freedom they 
did enjoy, that they were more than willing to 
commit their destinies to the uncontrolled will 
of your excellency. Let me assure you, sir, 
that these assertions will gain no credit with 
the present generation, or with posterity. They 
will demand the facts which had induced a 
people, by no means deficient in intelligence, so 
soon to abandon the principles for which they 
had so gallantly fought, and tamely surrender 
that liberty which had been obtained at the ex- 
pense of so much blood. And what facts can 
be produced 1 It cannot be said that life and 
property were not as well protected under the 
republican government as they have ever been ; 
nor that there existed any opposition to the 
constitution and laws, too strong for the ordinary 
powers of the government to put down. 

If the insurrection of General Paez, in Vene- 
zuela, is adduced, I would ask, by what means 
was he reduced to obedience? Your excel- 
lency, the legitimate head of the republic, ap- 
peared, and, in a moment, all opposition ceased, 
and Venezuela was restored to the republic. But 
it is said that this was efl'ccted by your perso- 
nal influence, or the dread of your military ta- 
lents; and that, to keep Genera! Pacz, and other 
ambitious chiefs, from dismembering the repub- 
lic, it was necessary to invest your excellency 
with the extraordinary powers you possess. 
There would be some reason in this, if you had 
refused to act without these powers ; or, having 
acted as you did, you had been unable to ac- 
complish any thing without them. But you 
succeeded completely, and there can be no pos- 
sible reason assigned why you would not have 
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future attempt of General Paez, or any other 
general. 

There appears, however, to be one sentiment 
in which all parties unite ; that is, that, as 
matters now stand, you aloiie can save the 
country from ruin, at least, from much cala- 
mity. They dilfer, however, very widely, as to 
the measures to be taken to put your excellency 
m the way to render this important service. 
The lesser, and mo-re interested party, is for 
placing the government in your hands for life; 
either with your present title, or with one 
which, it must be confessed, better accords with 
the nature of the powers to be exercised. If 
they adopt the less offensive title, and if they 
weave into their system some apparent checks 
to your will, it is onl}' for the purpose of mask- 
ing, in some degree, their real object, which is 
nothing siiort of the establishment of a despo- 
tism. The plea of necessity, that eternal argu- 
ment of all conspirators, ancient or modern, 
against the rights of mankind, will be resorted 
to, to induce you to accede to their measures ; 
and the unsettled state of the country, which 
has been designedly produced by them, will be 
adduced as evidence of that necessity. 

There is but one way for your excellency 
to escape from the snares which have been so 
artfully laid to entrap you, and that is, to stop 
short in the course which, unfortunately, has 
been already commenced. Every step you ad- 
vance, under the influence of such counsels, will 
make retreat more dithcult, until it will become 
impracticable. You will be told that the in- 
t(!ntion is only to vest you with authority to 
correct what is wrong in the administration, and 
to put down the factions, and that when the 
country once enjoys tranquillity, the govern- 
ment may be restored to the people. Delusive 
will be the hopes of those who rel}' upon this 
declaration. The promised hour of tranquillity 
will never arrive. If events tended to produce 
it, they would be counteracted by the govern- 
ment itself It was the strong remark of a former 
president of the United States, that, ' Sooner 
will the lover be contented with the first smiles 
of his mistress, than a government cease to en- 
deavour to preserve and extend its powers.' 
\Vith whatever reluctance your excellency may 
commence the career; with whatever disposition 
to abandon it, when the objects for which it was 
commenced have been obtained ; when once 
fairly entered, you will be borne along by the 
irresistible force of pride, habit of command, and, 
indeed, of self-preservation, and it will be im- 
possible to recede. 

But it is said that it is for the benefit of the 
people that the proposed change is to be made ; 
and that by your talents and influence alone, 
aided by unlimited power, the ambitious chiefs 
in the ditlereut departments arc to be restrained, 
and the integrity of the republic preserved. I 
have said, and I most sincerely believe, that, 
from the state into which the country has been 
trough', that you alone can preserve it from 
the horrors of anarchy. But I cannot conceive 



that any extraordinary powers are necessary. 
The authority to see that the laws are executed; 
to call out the strength of the country to enforce 
their execution, is all that is required, and is 
what is possessed by the chief magistrule of tlie 
United States, and of every other republic ; and 
is what was confided to the executive, by the 
constitution of Cucuta. Would your talents or 
your energies be impaired in the council, or the 
field, or your influence lessened, when acting as 
the head of a republic ? 

1 profiose to examine, very briefly, the re- 
sults whicli are likely to lluw from the ]iro- 
posed change of government : First, in relativiii 
to the country ; and, secondly, to yourself, per- 
sonally. Is the tranquillity of the country to 
be secured byitl Is it possible for your ex- 
cellency to believe, that when the mask has 
been thrown off, and the people discover that 
a despotic government has been fixed upoa 
them, that they will quietly submit to it T Will 
they forget the pass-word, which, like the cross 
of fire, was the signal lor rallying to oppose 
their former tyrants ! Will the virgins, at your 
bidding, cease to chant the songs of liberty 
which so lately animated the j'outh to victory • 
Was the patriotic blood of Colombia all expend- 
ed on the fields of Vargas, Bayaea, and Carebo- 
1)0 ] The schools may cease to enforce upon 
their pupils the love of country, drawn from the 
examples of Calo and the Bruti, Harmodius and 
Aristogiton; but the glorious example of patri- 
otic devotion, exhibited in your own Hacienda, 
will supply their place. Depend oa it, sir, 
that the moment which shall amiounce the 
continuance of arbitrary power in your hands, 
will be the commencement of commotions 
which will require all your talents and em rgies 
to suppress. You may succeed. The disci- 
plined army, at your disposal, may be too power- 
ful for an unarmed, undisciplined, and scat- 
tered population; but one unsuccessful eff)rt 
win not content them, and your feelings will be 
eternally racked by being obliged to make war 
upon those who have been accustomed to call 
you their father, and to invoke blessings on 
your head, and for no cause but their adherence 
to principles which you yourself had taught 
them to regard more than their lives. 

If, by the strong government which the ad- 
vocates for the proposed change so strenuously 
recommend, one without responsibility is in- 
tended, which may put men to death, and im- 
mure them in dungeons, without trial, and one 
where the army is every thing, and the people 
nothing, I must say, that, if the tranquillity of 
Colombia is to be preserved in this way, the 
wildest anarchy would he preferable. Out of 
that anarchy abetter government might arise, 
but the chains of military desjiotism once fas- 
tened upon a nation, ages might pass away be- 
fore they could be shaken off. 

But I contend that the strcmgest of all govern- 
ments is that which is most free. We consider 
that of the United^ States as the strongest, 
precisely because it is the most free. It pos- 

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sesses the faculties equally to protect itself from 
foreign force or internal convulsion. In both it 
has been sufficiently tried. In no country upon 
earth would an armed opposition to the laws 
♦»e sooner or more effectually put down. Not 
BO much by the terrors of the guillotine and the 
gibbet, as from the aroused determination of the 
nation, exhibiting their strength, and convinc- 
ing the factious that their cause was hopeless. 
No, sir, depend upon it, that the possession of 
arbitrary power, by the government of Colom- 
bia, will not be the means of securing its tran- 
quillity ; nor will the danger of disturbances 
solely arise from the opposition of the people. 
The power, and the military force which it will 
be necessary to put in the hands of the gover- 
nors of the distant provinces, added to the na- 
ture of the country, will continually present to 
those officers the temptation and the means of 
revolt. 

Will the proposed change restore prosperity 
to the country ] With the best intentions to 
do so, will you be able to recall commerce to 
its shores and give new life to the drooping state 
of agriculture ] The cause of the constant de- 
cline, in these great interests, cannot be mistaken. 
It arises from the fewness of those who labour, 
and the number of those who are to be sup- 
ported by that labour. To support a swarm of 
luxurious and idle monks, and an army greatly 
disproportioned to the resources of the country, 
with a body of officers in a tenfold degree dis- 
proportioned to the army, every branch of indus- 
try is oppressed with burdens which deprive the 
ingenious man of the profits of his ingenuity, 
and the labourer of his reward. To satisfy the 
constant and pressing demands which are made 
upon it, the treasury seizes upon every thing 
within its grasp — destroying the very germ of 
future prosperity. Is there any prospect that 
these evils will cease with the proposed change ? 
Can the army be dispensed with T Will the 
influence of the monks be no longer necessary] 
Believe me, sir, that the support which the go- 
vernment derives from both these sources will 
be more than ever requisite. 

But the most important inquiry is, the effect 
which this strong government is to have upon 
the people themselves. Will it tend to improve 
and elevate their character, and fit them for the 
freedom which it is pretended is ultimately to be 
bestowed upon them ? The question has been 
answered from the age of Homer. Man does 
not learn under oppression those noble qualities 
and feelings which fit him for the enjoyment 
<3f liberty. Nor is despotism the proper school 
in which to acquire the knowledge of the prin- 
ciples of republican government. A govern- 
raent whose revenues are derived from divert- 
ing the very sources of wealth from its subjects, 
will not find the means of improving the morals 
and enlightening the minds of the youth, by 
supporting systems of liberal education ; and, 
if it could, it would not. 

In relation to the effect which this invest- 
ment of power is to have upon your happiness 



and your fame, will the pomp and glitter of a 
court, and the flattery of venal courtiers, reward 
you for the troubles and anxieties attendant 
upon the exercise of sovereignty, everywhere, 
and those which will flow from your pecuHar 
situation] Or power, supported by the bayonet, 
for that willing homage which you were wont 
to receive from your fellow-citizens ? The 
groans of a dissatisfied and oppressed people 
will penetrate the inmost recesses of your 
palace, and you will be tortured by the reflec- 
tion, that you no longer possess that place in 
their affections, which was once your pride and 
your boast, and which would have been your 
solace under every reverse of fortune. Unsup- 
ported by the people, your authority can be 
maintained only by the terrors of the sword 
and the scaffold. And have these ever been 
successful under similar circumstances ] Blood 
may smother, for a period, but can never extin- 
guish the fire of liberty, which you have con- 
tributed so much to kindle, in the bosom of 
every Colombian. 

I will not urge, as an argument, the personal 
dangers to which you will be exposed. But 
I will ask if you could enjoy life, which would 
be preserved by the constant execution of so 
many human beings — your countrymen, your 
former friends, and almost your worshippers. 
The pangs of such a situation will be made 
more acute, by reflecting on the hallowed mo- 
tive of many of those who would aim their 
daggers at your bosom. That, like the last of 
the Romans, they would strike, not from hatred 
to the man, but love to the country. 

From a knowledge of your own disposition, 
and present feelings, your excellency will not 
be willing to believe that you could ever be 
brought to commit an act of tyranny, or even 
to execute justice with unnecessary rigor. But 
trust me, sir, that there is nothing more cor- 
rupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest 
and finest feelings of our nature, than the ex- 
ercise of unlimited power. The man who, in 
the beginning of such a career, might shudder 
at the idea of taking away the life of a fellow 
being, might soon have his conscience so seared 
by the repetition of crime, that the agonies of 
his murdered victims might become music to 
his soul, and the drippings of his scaffold afford 
' blood enough to swim in.' History is full of 
such examples. 

From this disgusting picture, permit me to 
call the attention of your excellency to one of 
a different character. It exhibits you as the 
constitutional chief magistrate of a free people, 
giving to their representatives the influence of 
your great name and talents, to reform the 
abuses which, in a long reign of tyranny and 
misrule, have fastened upon every branch of the 
administration. The army, and its swarm of 
officers reduced within the limits of real useful- 
ness, placed on the frontiers, and no longer per- 
mitted to control public opinion, and be the ter 
ror of the peaceful citizen. By the removal of 
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blishment of order, responsibility, and economy, i 
in the expenditures of the government, it would | 
soon be enabled to dispense with the odious 
monopolies, and the duty of the alcavala, which 
have operated with so malign an effect upon 
commerce, and agriculture, and, indeed, upon 
the revenues which they were intended to aug- 
ment. No longer oppressed by these shackles, 
industry would everywhere revive : the farmer 
and the artisan, cheered by the prospect of 
ample reward for their labour, would redouble 
their exertions ; foreigners, with their capital 
and skill in the arts, would crowd hither, to 
enjoy the advantages which could scarcely, 
elsewhere, be found : and Colombia would soon 
exhibit the reality of the beautiful fiction of 
Fenelon — Salentum rising from misery and 
oppression, to prosperity and happiness, under 
the counsels and direction of the concealed 
goddess. 

What objections can be urged against this 
course ? Can any one acquainted with the 
circumstances of the country, doubt its success, 
in restoring and maintaining tranquillity ? The 
people would certainly not revolt against them- 
selves ; and none of the chiefs who are sup- 
posed to be factiously inclined, would think of 
opposing the strength of the nation, when di- 
rected by your talents and authority. But it is 
said, that the want of intelligence amongst the 
people unfits them for the government. Is it 
not right, however, that the experiment should 
be fairly tried 1 I liave already said that this 
has not been done. For myself, I do not hesi- 
tate to declare my firm belief, that it will suc- 
ceed. The people of Colombia possess many 
trails of character suitable for a republican go- 
vernment. A more orderly, forbearing, and 
well-disposed people are nowhere to be met 
with. Indeed, it may safely be asserted, that 
their faults and vices are attributable to the 
cursed government to which they have been so 
long subjected, and to the intolerant character 
of the religion, whilst their virtues are all their 
own. But, admitting their present want of 
intelligence, no one has ever doubted their 
capacity to acquire knovi'ledge, and under the 
strong motives which exist, to obtain it, sup- 
ported by the influence of your excellency, it 
would soon be obtained. 

To yourself, the advantage would be as great 
as to the country ; like acts of mercy, the bless- 
ings would be reciprocal ; your personal happi- 
ness secured, and your fame elevated to a 
height which would leave but a single compe- 
tition in the estimation of posterity. In be- 
stowing the palm of merit, the world has be- 
come wiser than formerly. The successful 
warrior is no longer regarded as entitled to the 
first place in the temple of fame. Talents of 
this kind have become too commoi,, and too 
often used for mischievous purposes, to be re- 
garded as they once were. In this enlightened 
age, the mere hero of the field, and the success- 
ful leader of armies, may, for the moment, 
attract attention. But it will be such as is 



bestowed upon the passing meteor, whose blaze 
is no longer remembered, when it is no longer 
seen. To be esteemed eminently great, it is 
necessary to be eminently good. The qualities 
of the hero and the general must be devoted ta 
the advantage of mankind, before he will be 
permitted to assume the title of their benefactor; 
and the station which he will hold in their re- 
gard and affections will depend, not upon the 
number and the splendour of his victories, but 
upon the results and the use he may make of 
the influence he acquires from them. 

If the fame of our Washington depended 
upon his military achievements, would the 
common consent of the world allow him the 
pre-eminence he possesses ? The victories at 
Trenton, Monmouth, and York, brilliant as 
they were, exhibiting as they certainly did, the 
highest grade of military talents, are scarcely 
thought of. The source of the veneration and 
esteem which is entertained for his character, 
by every description of politicians — the mo- 
narchist and aristocrat, as well as the republican, 
is to be found in his undeviating and exclusive 
devotedness to the interest of his country. 
No selfish consideration was ever suiTered to 
intrude itself into his mind. For his country 
he conquered ; and the unrivalled and increas- 
ing prosperity of that country is constantly add- 
ing fresh glory to his name. General, the course 
which he pursued is open to you, and it depends 
upon yourself to attain the eminence which he 
has reached before you. 

To the eyes of military men, the laurels you 
won on the fields of Vargas, Bayaca and Ca- 
rebobo, will be forever green ; but will that 
content you ' Are you willing that your name 
should descend to posterity, amongst the mass 
of those whose fame has been derived from 
shedding human blood, without a single advan- 
tage to the human race .' Or, shall it be united 
to that of Washington, as the founder and thb 
father of a great and happy people 1 The 
choice is before you. The friends of liberty 
throughout the world, and the people of the 
Uniteil States in particular, are waitiwg your 
decision with intense anxiety. Alexander toiled 
and conquered to attain the applause of the 
Athenians; will you regard as nothing the 
opinions of a nation which has evinced its 
superiority over that celebrated people, in the 
science most useful to man, by having carried 
into actual practice a system of government, 
of which the wisest Athenians had but a 
glimj)se in theory, and considered as a bless- 
ing never to be realized, however ardently to be 
desired 1 The place which you are to occupy 
in their esteem depends upon yourself. Fare- 
well. W. H. liARiiisois. 



" As long as the leaders of the Roman ar 
mies were taken from the plough, to the pluur^h 
they were willing to return." — From General 
Harrison's Address before the Ai^ricultural 
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The following high testimony speaks trumpet-tongued to eveiy American heart, that is not 
hardened by political rancour : — 





Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in 
Cons:ress assembled, That the THANKS OF CONGRESS be, and they are hereby presented 
to Major-general WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, and ISAAC SHELBY, late Governor 
of Kentucky, and through them to the Officf.us and Mkn under their command, for their 
gallantry and good conduct in defeating the combined British and Indian forces under Major- 
general Proctor on the Thames, in Ujiper Canada, on the 5th day of October, 1813 — capturing 
the BRITISH ARMY, with their baggage, camp equipage and artillery — and that the Pue- 
811) EXT of the United States be requested to cause two GOLD MEDALS to be strnck, 
emblematical of this Triumph, and presented to General HARRISON and ISAAC SHELBY, 
late Governor of Kentucky. 

H. CLAY, Speaker House of Representatives. 

Unanimouslt adopted. JOHN GAILLARD, President Senate pro tern. 

See Niles' Register, vol; xiv. p. 186. April ith, 1818, Approved, JAMES MONROE. 



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Tlie following thrilling story will cause fvery liiiart 
to vibrate with gratitude, lli:it is warmed with oiiu 
spark of patriotism. 

From the Ohio Republican. 

BOYS, DO YOU HEAR "THATV 

Twenty-six years ago last autumn, (saiJ a 
gentleman to us the other day,) I was a boy 
attending school in a log cabin, with no other 
windows than the light atlbrded through the 
space of two logs, by the removal of a [liece of 
the tliird, with greasy bits of paper pasted on 
as substitutes for glass. This cabin, dedicated 
to learning, was situated in the outskirts of a 
now populous town in Pennsylvania. No state 
in the Union furnished more or better soldiers 
for the defence and protection of the northern 
frontier of Ohio, during the late war than did 
Pennsylvania. Not a few of her sons were in 
the army surrendered by Hull, besides, num- 
bers of her brave fellows were massacred and 
scalped at Winchester and Dudley's defeat. 
Still, the after-call of General Harrison for more 
soldiers, was answered by large numbers of 
Pennsylvanians, including several from our 
village. The departure of these brave fellows 
from their families and friends, was then viewed 
as a voluntary sacrifice of life for the defence 
of their country, and the '' farewell, God bless 
ye," was uttered in atone and fueling that sunk 
deep in the hearts of the by-standers, and 
which will never be effaced from my memory. 

In those days, our mails were few and un- 
certain ; and it was only by the occasional 
passing of a sick or disabled soldier returning 
home, that we heard from our army. Time 
hung heavy, and de§p gloom overspread our 
country. The last news was, " a battle is soon 
expected between the American army under 
General Harrison, and the British and Indians 
under the blood-thirsty Proctor and Tecum- 
seh!" 

Lays and weeks passed by, and yet nothing 
was heard from our army. Our citizens eager- 
ly hailed all strangers from the west, with the 
anxious inquiry of " Any news from General 
Harrison !" Such was the delay, doubt, and 
uncertainty, , that it was generally feared, and 
by many believed, that Harrison and his army 
had, like those before him, been defeated and 
massacred. 

While I was sitting (said our informant) at 
the low long window of our school-house, and 
our Irish schoolmaster was busy in repeating 
our A B C to the smaller urchins, I suddenly 
heard the sound of a horn. I looked forth, and 
saw descending the hill, half a mile distant, 
the mail-boy on his horse at full speed. At 
the foot of the hill, he crossed a bridge, and 
the rapid clatter of the iron hoof resounded 
thoughout our cabin. Rising the hill near 
us, his horse at full speed, and reeking with 
sweat, he again soimded his shrill horn, and 
when opposite our log cabin, he called out : 

" Harrison has whipped the British and In- 
dians !" 

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Our Irish tutor, with as true an American 
heart as ever beat in a son of Erin, sprang from 
his seat as though he had been shot — his eyes 
flashing with fire, he screamed out; 

" Bu!/s, do you hear that P" 

He caught his hat, darted out at the door, 
and followed the mail-boy at the top of his 
speed. The scholars were not a second be- 
hind — the larger ones taking the lead, and 
shouting "Huzza for Harrison!" and the 
smaller ones ruiniing after, halloing and screan: 
ing with fright ! 

The people of our village hearing the coit 
fusion, and seeing the mail-boy and horse at 
full run, followed by the schoolmaster at the 
top of his si)ecd, and his whole school scream- 
ing — shouting, and screaming ; and knew not 
what to make of it. The mechanic left his 
shop — the merchant his store ; and the women 
stretched their necks out at the windows, 
while consternation and dismay were depicted 
on every countenance, the mail arriving at the 
ofiicc, the carrier rose in his stirrups, and ex- 
claimed, at the same time whirling his hat in 
the air : 

" Huzza for Harrison ! He has whij^ped the 
British and Indians!" 

" Boi/s, do ynu hear that ?'" 

A universal shout of joy involuntarily buist 
forth — bonfires were kindled in the stieets; 
and our village illuminated at night. In those 
days I heard no one say that Harrison was a 
" coward," or a " granny," but I di<l Itear many 
say, " God bless General Harrison !" 

A Penxstlvaniax. 



Gentle reader ! no matter to what party you may 
bo attached, if this interesting ri;cital shall have 
touched your heart, if you are resolved that the gra- 
titude of the jrarm-hcartcil son of Erin shall not ex- 
ceed that of an American heart towar<ls the brave 
defender of his country, come join us in the follow- 
ing patriotic gong. But should your bosom be irre- 
sponsive to the voice of gratitude ; should you still 
persevere in your base slanders and vile calumnies 
upon the reputation of the ffullant soldier and incor- 
ruptible patriot, you may be abandoned as a bad job, 
and considered as the very quintescence of double 
distilled destructive loco-focoism. 



SHOULD BRAVE OLD SOLDIERS BE 
FORGOT 1 

Air — " Muld Lang Syne." 
Should brave old soldiers be forgot 1 

Should patriots fail to twine 
Wreaths, glorious wreaths, for those who fought 

In days of old lang syne 1 
No ! long as life endures will we 

Deep in our hearts enshrine 
The names of those who made us free 

In days of old lang syne. 

Proud England, gloating o'er her crown, 

And king, and " rights divine," 
Sent forth her slaves to chain us down, 

In days of old lang syne : 



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But frec'lom's champions averr'd 
They'd make her " lion" whine ; 

And nobly did they keep their word, 
In days of old lang syne. 

They drew a charter, strong and full — 

Nor did they fear to sign 
The bulletin that prick'd John Bull, 

And cut in every line. 
Among those hearts of flint, whose fire 

Lit up the flame benign, 
"Was Harrison — Tip's sainted sire ! — 

A Whig of old lang syne. 

But not the father's fame alone 

Exalts the soldier son — 
He has bright laurels of his own, 

In hard-fought battles won ! 
The Wabash banks — Fort Meigs — the 
Thames — 

Their tributes all combine 
To rank him high with those whose names 

Were dear in old lang syne. 

And who's Van Burex ? — where, and when 

Did he lead on the brave ; 
Or raise his voice, or wield his pen, 

Or ope his purse, to save ? 
While Tip gave fight, he styled the war 

C^" Disastrous" and " malign,^' 
And richly earn'd a coat of tar, 

As tories did lang syne. , 

Let those who love Sub-Treasury charms — 

i^yHard work and little pay, 
Closed working-shops and 7nor( gaged farms — 

Extol King Martin's sway. 
But WE have solemnly afiirm'd 

We will not rest supine 
Till Van shall squirm as Croswell squirm'd, 

And wriggled — not lang syne! 

The ^n«;9McA- pillow'd Harry's head, 

The hard ground eased his toils ; 
While Martin, on his downy bed. 

Could dream of nought but " spoils." 
And shall the blue-light rule the free ? 

Shall freedom's star decline 1 
Forbid it Heaven ! forbid it ye 

Who bled in old lang syne. 

Is Harrison one whit the worse 

Because he'd not secure. 
As Martin did, a long, full purse, — 

(^But went from office poor ? — 
And does the low " log cabin" hearth 

Unfit Old Tip to shine 1 
Did no log homes give nobles birth 

In days of old lang syne 1 

What though the hero's hard " huge paws" 

Were wont to plough, and sow ! 
Does that disgrace our sacred cause ? 

Does that degrade him ? NO ! 



Whig farmers are our nation's nerve, 

It's bone — its very spine ! 
They'll never swerve — they did not swerve 

In days of old lang syne. 

No ruflJed shirt, no silken hose, 

No airs does Tip display ; 
But like " the pith of worth," he goes 

In homespun " hoddin-grey." 
Upon his board there ne'er appear'd 

The costly " sparkling wine," 
But plain "hard cider /" such as cheer'd 

In days of old lang syne. 

Connecticut has raised the heel 

Tip's tory-foes to bruise ; 
And keenly do their vitals feel 

The tread of " Jersey Blues." 
November's ides will give the stroke — 

Hard, final, and condign — 
A blow like that which snapped the yoke 

In days of old lang syne. 

Yes, Tip must grace the big " White House! 

(Alas ! for groom and cook !) 
And Van on kabbltch-sialks must brouse. 

At home, sweet home — the 'hook ! 
Thrice hail, Old Tip ! " Log Cabin" Tip ! 

"Hard Cider" Tip! To YOU 
The helm we give ! — hail, noble ship ! 

" Land ho!" the port's in view ! 
Huzza ! huzza ! kind Heaven be praised — 

The star, the star benign, 
Shines bright ! — 'tis freedom's star that blazed 

In days of old lang syne ! 



The creed of a genuine Republican sincerely enter- 
tained, and my life on its faithful and religious ob- 
servance. 

GENERAL HARRISON'S CREED. 

The following is the political creed promul- 
gated by General Harrison, in a letter to the 
Honourable Harmer Denny, of Pittsburg. It 
is a noble creed — it will bring back our govern- 
ment to the purity which characterized it in its 
palmy days of true democracy. General Har- 
rison says : — 

" Among the principles proper to be adopted 
by any executive sincerely desirjus to restore 
the administration to its original simplicity and 
purity, I deem the following to be of prominent 
importance. 

" First : To confine his service to a single 
term. 

" Second : To disclaim all right of contrA 
over the public treasury, with the exception of 
such part of it as may be appropriated by law, 
to carry on the public service, and that to be 
applied precisely as the law may direct, and 
drawn from the treasury agreeably to the long 
established forms of that department. 

" Third : That he should never attempt to 
influence the elections, either by the people or 
the state legislatures, nor sulfur the federal oCSt 



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cers under his control to take any other part in 
them than by giving their own votes when they 
possess the right of voting. 

"Fourth: That in tlie exercise of the veto 
power, he should hmit his rejeotion of hills to, 
iirst : Such as are in his ojjinion unconstitu- 
tional. Second : Such as tend to encroach on 
the rights of the states or individuals. Third : 
Such as involving deep interests, may in his 
opinion require more mature deliberation or 
reference to the will of the people, to be ascer- 
tained at the succeeding elections. 

" Fifth : That he should never suffer the in- 
fluence of his office to be used for purposes of 
a purely party character. 

" Sixth : That in removals from office of those 
who hold the appointment during the pleasure 
of the executive, the cause of such removal 
should be stated, if requested, to the senate, at 
the time the nomination of a successor is made. 

" And last, but not least in importance, ' 

" Seventh ; That he should not suller the ex- 
ecutive department of the government to become 
the source of legislation ; biat leave the whole 
business of making laws for the Union to the 
dejiartmcnt to which the constitution has ex- 
clusively assigned it, until they hrve assumed 
that perfect shape, where and when alone the 
opinions of the executive may be heard. 

"The question may perhaps be asked of me, 
what security I have in my power to olfer, if 
the majority of the American people should 
select me for their chief magistrate, that I 
v\'ould adopt the principles which I have herein 
laid down as those upon which my administra- 
tion would be conducted. I could only answer, 
by referring to my conduct, and the disposition 
manifested in the discharge of the duties of 
several important offices, which have heretofore 
been conferred on me. If the power placed in 
my hands has, on even a single occasion, been 
used for any purpose other than that for which 
it was given, or retained longer than was ne- 
cessary to accomplish the objects designated by 
those from whom the trusts were received, I 
will acknowledge that eidier will constitute a 
sutTicient reason for discrediting any promise I 
may make, under the circu a. stances in which I 
am now placed. 

"I am, dear sir, truly yours, 

" W. H. Hariusos." 



The wealthy capitalists ami greedy speculators of 
those days may frown upon him, for depriving them 
of the o|iportunity n{ amassinir viillions at the expense 
of the /Joormnn, l)ut the honest and industrious settlers 
of the western lands, will always shower blessings 
upon the brave and faithful representative of their 
true interests. 

GENERAL HARRISON AND THE PUB- 
LIC LANDS. 
We extract from that excellent paper, the 
Knoxville Times, the following remarks in re- 
lation to General Harrison's course on the pub- 
lic lands. 



" Although General Harrison has spent a 
great portion of his life in fighting successfully 
the battles of his country, and has of conse- 
quence not mingled so often as he might other- 
wise have done in legislation, he always co- 
operated with the soutli, and has never suH'cred 
an opportunity to escape of manifesting his 
devotion to our republican institutions, by origi- 
nating and sustaining measures which would 
add to the privileges and ameliorate the condi- 
tion of the great mass of the people. We will 
here give an instance, in illustration, in addition 
to those which have been already cited to our 
readers. When he first entered Congress as a 
delegate from the northwestern territory, the 
public lands were sold only in large bodies of 
four fhousund acres. The poor emigrant was 
of course unable to buy the sn-iall quantity of 
land which his means would allow, at govern- 
ment prices, but was compelled to purchase at 
second hand and increased prices of the wealthy 
and greedy speculator. General Harrison's 
move, when he entered Congress, was to have 
tile public lands divided into convenient tracts 
for the settler, and by this single act has entitled 
himself to the gratitude of every true Repub- 
lican in the nation. The following toast in 
allusion to this subject was lately given at a 
public dinner at Harrisburg : 

" The public lands — Divided nr Gexkrai. 
Hauiiison into small tracts on ■WHICtt 

TO BUILD LOG CABINS FOR POOR MKN." 



Magnanimous recantation by a lender of the spoils 
party. 

The New York Evening Post, a loco-foco 
paper, having published the infamous story, that 
General Harrison voted, " to sell poor while 
men into slavery for debt," magnanimously 
publishes the following recantation : — 

" A letter of General Harrison's has been 
lately published,* from which it appears, that 
in our remarks on the subject of this attempt 
to introduce white slavery into the stat;- of Ohio, 
we did him some unintended injustice. The 
letter is dated, Dec. 2d, 182 1, and ajipears to 
have been drawn forth by a newspaper attack 
upon his course in the legislature in relation to 
the same law. We we f^lad 1v see, that accord- 
ing lo Harrison^s explanation of the mutter, 
7ieithcr he nor the gen/knien who voted with 
him, were in favour of selling human beings 
for civil debts." 

Generous and regardless of self; even towards an 
enemy. 

Harrison giving uirai/ his only blauhrt. — 
During the pursuit of PnocTnii, all Hiiini- 
sojf's baggage was carried in a valise, and nis 
bed was a single blanket fastened over his sad- 
dle. This- last he gave to Colonel Evans, a 
wounded British officer. 



♦ See page 36 of this Almanac. 



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THE BLOODY, BUT FALSELY-STYLED 
"CODE OF HONOUR." 

General Harrisons opinion of the bloody code. 

Vltuler the firm conviction that no legislative enact- 
ments can ever effectually arrest the inluinian and 
unchristian practice, which forms the siiliject of the 
following letter, and in the religious belif f that this 
vesti!,'e of barbarism can only be rendered dis-ho- 
noiiralile by a determination on the part of the n-aHrtn J 
officers of our ar'iiuj and navy, to demonstrate to the 
world, tliat they "fear GOU more than man," 
it atfotds «s sincere gratification to present to ihe 
readers of the Tippecanoe Almanac an opportunity 
■of ascertaining the opinions of the war-worn ve- 
teran, who, in so many well fought battles with our 
British and savage foes, aniid scenes of unparalleled 
<langer and difficulty, has always borne to victory and 
10 glory the "stars and the stripes" of our country. 

No Christian or moralist can rise from the pe- 
rusal of this admirable production without entertain- 
ing a high veneration for the head and the heart of 
the gallant, old chief from whom it emanates, and we 
■shall be indeed disappoimted, if the concluding para- 
graph, evincing higher and holier than human con- 
siderations, do iK)t sink deeply into the hearts of 
■Clirisliaji parents of all religious denominations. 

North Bend, April 7, 1S38. 

T)r,An Sib — You ask my opinion " of the 
•code of honour which decides controversies by 
a resort to the duel." I comply with your 
request, and would do so more readily, if I 
could suppose that any thing that I could say 
would have any influence in putting an end to 
a practice which is the cause of so much indi- 
vidual distress, and violates so many obligations 
of the most sacred character. 

The arguments which may be used against 
tluelling are so obvious, and have been so often 
urged by persons much more able to do them 
justice than I am, that I shall content myself 
with giving you what may be termed my expe- 
rience in matters of this kind. And as this 
certainly does not exhibit the practice in a very 
fascinating light, it may perhaps have a better 
effect than any other mode of treating the sub- 
ject that I could adopt. 

I believe that there were more duels in the 
northwestern army between the years 1791 and 
1795, inclusive, than ever took place in the 
same length of time, and amongst so small a 
body of men as composed the commissioned 
officers of the army either in America, or any 
other country at least in modern times. I 
became an officer in the first mentioned year, 
at so early an age, that it is not wonderful that 
I implicitly adopted the opinions of the older 
officers, most of whom were veterans of the 
Revolution, upon this as well as upon other 
subjects connected with my conduct and duty 
in the profession I had chosen. I believed, 
therefore, in common with the larger portion 
of the officers, that no brave man would de- 
cline a challenge, nor refrain from giving one, 
whenever he considered that his rights or feel- 
ings had been trespassed upon. I must confess, 
too, that I was not altogether free from the opi- 
nion, that even honour might be acquired by a 



well fought duel. Fortunately, however, before 
I was engaged in a duel, either as principal or 
second, which terminated fatally to any one, I 
became convinced that all mj' opinions on the 
subject were founded in error, and none of them 
more so than that which depicted the situation 
of the successful duellist, as cither honourable 
or desirable. It could not be honourable, be- 
cause the greater portion of that class of man- 
kind whose good opinion of an individual con- 
fers honour upon him, were opposed to it. And 
I had the best evidence to believe that, in the 
grave of the fallen . duellist, was frequently 
buried the peace and happiness of the survivor ; 
the act which deprived the one of existence, 
planting a thorn in the bosom of the other, 
which would continue to rankle and fester there 
to the end of his days. The conviction that 
such was the case, with men of good feelings 
and principles, was produced by my witnessing 
the mental sufferings of an intimate and valued 
friend, by whose hand a worthy man had fallen. 
Several years had elapsed from the date of this 
affair, before I became acquainted with him. 

We were soon after associated in the general 
staff of the army, and for the greater part of 
two years, we shared the same tent or barrack 
room, and often the same pallet. I had there- 
fore an opportunity of seeing the agony he 
often felt, when his mind recurred to the event 
which had deprived society of a worthy mem- 
ber, and himself of an e.steemed and cherished 
acquaintance. Like the unhappy hermit in the 
tragedy of Douglass, he appeared, in his sleep, 
to " hold dialogues" with the ghost of the vic- 
tim of his superior .skill in the u.se of arms, or 
more perfect self-possession ; and a witness to 
them might have adopted the opinion of the 
youthful Norval, that the happier lot was his 
who had fallen. Taking the rules which govern 
such matters, as the criterion, my friend had 
nothing wherewith to accuse himself. The 
quarrel was indeed "fastened on him." Gene- 
rous as brave, he had done every thing in his 
power, to induce a withdrawal of the challenge, 
and when, by a first fire, his adversary was 
wounded, he anxiously desired that the affair 
might there terminate. His proposition was 
rejected, his second shot was fixtal. What an 
instructive lesson does this story present to him 
who would resort to this mode of settling a 
personal difficulty; and who possesses common 
Bensibility, and the principles of humanity and 
honour ! — the sad alternatives, his own death, 
or a subsequent life of bitter regret and sorrow. 
A short experience in the army convinced me, 
also, that fighting a duel was not an undoubted 
test of true courage. I know instances of duels, 
and desperate duels, being fought by men who 
would not have been selected by the officers 
who knew them, to lead a forlorn hope. On 
the contrary, I possessed the most positive tes- 
timony to prove, that some of the bravest of 
men would not be engaged in an affair of the 
kind under any circumstances. 

Conformably to my plan, as stated in the 



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GI 



commencement of my letter, to give you facts 
rather than arguments, I present you with an- 
other reminiscence of my early military life. I 
introduce it not only to sustain my position, 
but from the respect I entertain for the memory 
of a gallant brother officer, long since called to 
receive, in another world, his reward for having 
preferred " the praise of God to the praise of 
men." In the summer of the year 1793, Lieu- 
tenant Drake of the infantry of the second sub- 
legion, received a marked insult from another 
officer. Manifesting no disposition to call him 
to an account, some of those who wished him 
well, amongst whom I was one, spoke to him 
on the subject, expressing our fears that his 
reputation as an officer would greatly suffer, if 
he permitted such an insult to pass unnoticed. 
The answer that he gave me was, that he cared 
not what opinion the officers might form of him ; 
he was determined to pursue his own course. 
That course was so novel in the army, that it 
lost him, as I had supposed it would, the respect 
of nearly all the officers. The ensuing sum- 
mer, however, gave Mr. Drake an opportunity 
of vindicating most triumphantly his conduct 
and principles. He had been stationed in a 
small fortress, which had been erected by Gene- 
ral Wayne during the winter, upon the spot in 
which they had the previous day deposited a 
quantity of provisions which had been rendered 
remarkable by the defeat of Gen. St. Clair's army, 
three years before. The garrison consisted of 
a single rifle company, and thirty infantry, and 
of the latter Drake was the immediate com- 
mander. In the beginning of July, 1794, a 
detachment of the army, consisting of several 
hundred men, under the command of Major 
McMahon, being encamped near the fort, which 
they had escorted from the cantonment of the 
army at Greenville, were attacked, early in the 
morning, by upwards of three thousand In- 
dians. The troops made a gallant resistaace ; 
but being turned on both flanks, and in danger 
of being surrounded, they retreated to the open 
ground around the fort. 

From this, too, they were soon dislodged by 
the overpowering force of the enemy ; in the 
retreat many wounded men were in danger of 
being left, which being observed from the fort, 
the commandant, Captain Gibson, directed his 
own lieutenant to take the infantry (Drake's 
particular command) and a portion of the rifle- 
men, and sally out to their relief To this 
Drake objected, and claimed the right to com- 
mand his own men, and as a senior to the other 
lieutenant, his right also to the whole command. 
" 0, very well, sir," said the captain, " if such 
is your wish, take it." "It is my wish, sir, to 
do my duty, and I will endeavour to do it, now 
and at all times," was the modest reply of 
Drake. He accordingly sallied out ; skilfully 
interposed his detachment between the retreat- 
ing troops and the enemy ; opened upon them 
a hot fire; arrested their advance, and gave an 
opportunity to the wounded to effect their 
escape, and to the broken and retreating com- 



panies of our troops, to re-form and again to 
face the enemy. Throughout the whole affair, 
Drake's activity, skill, and extraordinary self- 
possession, was most conspicuous. The enemy, 
of course, observed it, as well as his friends. 
The numerous shots directed at him, however, 
like the arrows of Teuccr, aimed at the heart 
of Hector, were turned aside by providential 
interference, until he had accomjilished all that 
he had been sent to perform. He then reci'ivcd 
a ball through his body and fell; a faithful 
corporal came to his assistance, and with his 
aid he reached the fort ; and those two were 
the last of the retreating parly that entered it ; 
Drake made it a point of honour that it should 
be so. Mr. Drake was rendered unlit for duty 
for a long time by his wound. He had not, 
indeed, recovered from it, in the summer of 
1796, when he was my guest, when in com- 
mand at Fort Washington, (Ginciimati,) on his 
way, on furlough, to visit his native state, Con- 
necticut. His friends, however, enjoyed his 
presence but a short time ; having, as I under- 
stood, taken the yellow fever, in passing through. 
Philadelphia, he died in a few days after he 
reached his home. 

I have yet another reminiscence, the relation 
of which may serve the cause you have so 
much at heart : — 

An officer of the army had so often and so 
unnecessarily wounded the feelings of another 
of the same corps, the duties of which made 
their associations indispensable, that he con- 
sidered himself bound to demand satisfaction 
in the usual way. They met, and the injured 
man fell, receiving a mortal wound, as it was 
anticipated he would, from the superior skill of 
his antagonist in the use of the weapon which 
they used. Being possessed of a high gratie of 
talents and an amiable character, he had the sym- 
pathy of all the officers. With others, I visaed him 
after he had been removed to his quarters. He 
expressed a desire to see the officer with whom 
he had fought, and I was present at the inter- 
view. I wish I could describe, as it merits, this 
interesting scene. The circumstances attend- 
ing it were so deeply imjiressed upon my minJ 
that they never can be effaced as long as me- 
mory holds its seat. 

In the tent, were some half dozen officers, the 
friends of the dying man, (for, as I have said, he 
had, from his amiable qualities, many and warm 
ones.) exhibiting unequivocal evidences of their 
sorrow. Conspicuous above the rest, and near 
the head of the rude couch, was the manly form 
of the commandant of the corps, to which both the 
duellists belonged, (the beau ideal of chivalrous 
valour, and the Chevalier de Bayard of the 
army,) pndeavouring to stifle, as best as he 
could, the feelings which agitated his llo^om. 
At a little distance, and in full view of the vic- 
tim of his passions, sat the insensible : but 

I must restrain the indignation which I still 
feel. He was my brother officer — we shared 
together the perils of a diiTicult war — and, ir 
battle, I know that he did his duty — and, what 



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ever might have been his conduct to others, I 
never had personally any reason to complain 
of him. But there he sat, apparently, at least, 
lanatfected by the mischief he had done, by 
burying in an untimely grave, a man who had 
never injured him, whose arm might be needed 
in the pending decisive battle with the hitherto 
triumphant enemies of his country, and whose 
intellect might at some future time have been 
usefully employed in its councils. The severe 
bodily pain which the dying officer had for 
some time suffered, had ceased, and that calm 
and ease succeeded, which is the unequivocal 
haroinger of approaching death, and which a 
gracious Providence has provided for the mor- 
tally wounded soldier, to enable him to offer a 
last prayer for his distant family, if he has one, 
or for the pardon of his own sins. Turning 
his intelligent eye upon his late antagonist, he 
mildly said, " he had desired to see him, for the 
purpose of assuring him of his sincere forgive- 
ness — that he wished him happiness in this 
world — and that, as the means of securing it 
he recommended to him, with the sincerity of 
a dying man, to endeavour to restrain the vio- 
lence of his passions, the indulgence of which 
had deprived one of life, who had never injured 
him, in thought or deed." 

I am satisfied that what I have said above 
does not entirely meet your inquiry, and that 
you will expect me to state what effect the 
scenes I have described had in forming m}' own 
principles, and governing my own conduct. I 
have already stated an entire change in my 
sentiments on the subject of duelling, from 
those which I entertained upon my first enter- 
ing the army ; and for which no excuse can be 
offered, but my extreme youth, and the bad 
examples continually before me. In almost 
every other case, possessed of the deliberate opi- 
nions of a man, you might safely conclude that 
his conduct would be in conformity to them. 
But such, alas ! is not the case with men of the 
world, in relation to the laws which form " the 
code of honour." Abstractedly considered they 
all condemn them, while in practice they adopt 
them. In all other cases, independent men act 
from their own convictions, but in this case, 
upon the opinions of others. 

I acknowledge, then, that the change of my 
opinions, which I have admitted in relation to 
duelling, had no other influence on my conduct 
than to determine me never to be the aggressor. 
But, although resolved to offer no insult nor in- 
flict any injury, I was determined to suffer none. 
When I left the army, however, and retired to 
civil life, I considered myself authorized greatly 
to narrow the ground upon which I would be 
willing to resort to a personal combat. To the 
determination which I had previously made, to 
offer no insult or inflict any injury to give occa- 
sion to any one to call upon me in this way, 
(for after witnessing the scene which I have 
last described, the wealth and honours of the 
world would not have tempted me to level a 
pistyl at the breast of a man whom I injured,) 



1 1 resolved to disregard all remarks upon my 
' conduct which could not be construed into a 
deliberate insult, or any injury which did not 
affect my reputation or the happiness and peace 
of my family. When I had the honour to be 
called upon to command the northwestern 
army, recollecting the number of gallant men 
that had fallen in the former war, in personal 
combat, I determined to use all the authority 
and all the influence of my station to prevent 
their recurrence. And, to take away the prin- 
cipal source from which they spring, in an ad- 
dress to the Pennsylvania brigade, at Sandusky, 
I declared it to be my determination to prevent, 
by all the means that the military laws placed 
in my hands, any injury, or even insult, which 
should be offered, by the superior to the inferior 
officers. I cannot say, what influence this 
course, upon my part, may have produced ia 
the result. But I state, with pleasure, that 
there was not a single duel, nor, as far as I 
know, a challenge given, whilst I retained the 
command. The activity in which the army 
was constantly kept, may, however, have been 
the principal cause of this uncommon harmony. 
In relation to my present sentiments, a sense 
of higher obligations than human laws, or hu- 
man opinions, can impose, has determined me 
never, on any occasion, to accept a challenge 
or seek redress for a personal injury, by a resort 
to the laws which compose the code of honour. 
I am, very respectfully. 
Your fellow citizen, W. H. Harrisost. 
To Aaron B. Howell, Esq. 



OLD TIPPECANOE ! 

A NATIONAL SONG, 
Tune — " Hurrah for the Bonnets of Blue." 
Here's a health to America's friend. 
Here's good luck to the honest and just, 
And who will not join in support of the right. 
Let them still go for Van — if they must / 
It's good from true faith ne'er to swerve, 
It's good from the right ne'er to go, 
It's good to maintain true Democracy's cause. 
And stick by OLD TIPPECANOE ! 
Here's a health to Old Tippecanoe, 
Hurrah for Old Tippecanoe, 
It's good to maintain Democracy's cause, , 
And vote for OLD TIPPECANOE! 

Here's a health to the Sons of the West, 
Here's good will to her matrons and sires, 
Here's a health to our Billy, the pride of hf^ 

state. 
Whose name every true heart inspires ! 
Hurrah for OLD TIPPECANOE, 
We'll shout him from Texas to Maine, 
And, if (four years ago) he chanced to miss 

fire, 
"Pick his Jlint — and no-w trt him again!" 

Here's a health to Old Tippecanoe, 

Hurrah for Old Tippecanoe; 

It's good to maintain Df, much act's causb. 

And vote for OLD TIPPECANOE ! 



TIPPECANOE ALMANAC. 



The followinij song was written by an OLD DE- 
MOCRAT of 1708, an original Jackson man, but not 
adniirins; such modern or ^'patent rlemocracy" as is 
prof?s3edby " Not-a-single-drop-ofdeinocratic-blood" 
Buchanan, or " As-loHg-as-the-federal-fiae-waved-in- 
iVew-Jersey-I-was-proud-to-raJly-under-il" Garret D. 
Wall, he is now a warm advocate of General Harri- 
son the TRUE REPUBLICAN Candidate of the i-eople. 



THE ARISTOCRACY OF DEMOCRACY. 

A :new song. 

Tune — John Anderson, my Jo, 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Buchanan, Wall, and Co. 
Ye black-cockaded Federalists, 

You're Democrats — Oho ! 
The loco-foco Democrats 

Of which you take the lead, 
Are spawn'd from every faction ^ 

Van Buren's bastard breed! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Within whose veins don't flow, 
A drop of Democratic blood ! 

Buchanan's boast you know; 
You'll say it vvas before he went, 

To Russia's autocrat ; 
And pocketed some thousands ; — 

A full-blood Democrat ! 

1 
Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Who lead corruption's crew ; 
Who with a single eye direct, 

Keep office aye in view ; 
The dear ! dear people ! you'd persuade, 

Alas ! poor simple elves, 
Their cash you'd watch with vigilance ; 

Then — pocket it yourselves! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Encased in triple brass, 
While plundering of the people's purse, 

For patriots you would pass I 
A cut-purse oft-times has been known, 

When running from the crowd. 
To bawl stop thief, stop thief, stop thief! 

The loudest of the loud ! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Like hags of dark midnight, 
A pall of blackness you have spread 

O'er prospects once so bright ; 
Industry you have paralysed ; 

Destruction stalks around ; 
And all our country's happiness. 

You've IcTcll'd with the ground ! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Ye sordid demagogues; 
All round the horizon you have spread 

Delusion's noisome fogs ; 
The ten years' ruthless war you've waged, 

Against our country's weal. 
Our children's children, much I fear. 

Are doom'd for years to feel ! 



Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Sub-treasurers you would be. 
As Democrats par excellence, 

None are more fit than ye ; 
To keep the people's cash, I ween, 

None will your Puice dispute. 
Who'd grudge a price for honesty. 

Would priceless make Swartwout! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Ye hollow-hearted clique, 
Who for the sake of power and pelf. 

Will at no vileness stick; 
Who Proteus-like will change your garb, 

Your baseness to disguise, 
To cheat the people of their wealth, 

Their rights and liberties ! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

The " sober second thought," 
Of an awaken'd people. 

Will spurn you into naught ! 
The masks torn from your faces. 

And from your places hurl'd ! 
You'll stand the scorn of all mankind, 

A proverb through the world ! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

The hateful theme I'll quit. 
Convinced the people will ere long 

Unmask each hypocrite ! 
And to the view of honest men. 

Your ingrain'd baseness show, 
Ye tiger-hearted demagogues. 

Van Buren, Wright, and Co.! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

One word, and I have done ; 
I'll leave you in the people's hands, 

Led on by HARRISOiV! 
Who like a torrent from the hills. 

Will sweep you all away ; 
Your names, a by-word through the land, 

Forever and for aye ! P. P. 



A crumb of comfort for the editors of the Pennsyl- 
vanian, the Globe, the Richmond Inquirer, and all 
other organs of the "spoils party." Dare you re- 
publish? Do so, ye heartless defainers! for the pur- 
pose of demonstrating that you possess even the 
minutest, the 7nost infinitesimal particle of magna- 
nimity. 

From the Philadelphia Inquirer. 

HEAR COLONEL CROGHAN. 

The Pennsylvanian, still pursuing the cha- 
racter of General Harrison with bitter hostility, 
states that Colonel Croghan has recently passed 
through Wheeling, where he was requested to 
give a statement of the conduct of General 
Harrison towards him. Now, says he, we 
shall have the truth, and we ask the Whig 
presses to publish it. We had supposed thai 



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every one at all conversant with our own his- 
tory, had already seen the truth from Colonel 
Croghan himself. Here it follows from Hall's 
Life of Harrison, and we ask the Pennsyl- 
vanian — will you publish it 1 

"Lower Sandusky, August 27, 1813. 
" I have with much regret seen in some of the 
public prints such misrepresentations respecting 
my refusal to evacuate this post, as are calcu- 
lated not only to injure me in the estimation 
of military men, hut also to excite unfavourable 
impressions as to the propriety of General Har- 
rison's conduct relative to this affair. His cha- 
racter as a military man is too well established 
to need my approbation or support. But his 
public service entitles him at least to common 
justice. This affair does not furnish cause of 
reproach. If public opinion has been lately mis- 
led respecting his late conduct, it will require 
but a moment's cool dispassionate reflection to 
convince them of its propriety. The measures 
recently adopted by him, so far from deservins; 
censure are the clearest proofs of his KEEN 
PENETRATION and ABLE GENERAL- 
SHIP. It has been stated also, ' that upon my 
representations of my ability to maintain the 
post, the general altered his determination to 
abandon it.' This is incorrect. No such re- 
presentations were ever made ; and the last 
order I received from the general was precisely 
the same as that first given, viz. : 'That if I dis- 
covered the approach of a large British force by 
water (presuming that they would bring heavy 
artillery) time enough to effect a retreat, I was 
to do so ; but if I could not retreat with safety, 
to defend the post to the last extremity.' It 
would be insincere to say that I am not flattered 
by the many handsome things which have been 
said about the defence which was made by the 
troops under my command ; but I desihe no 

PLAUDITS WHICU ARE BESTOWED UPOX- ME 
AT THE EXPENSE OF GeNKRAL HaRRISON. 

I have at all times enjoyed his confidence so 
far as my rank in the army entitled me to it, 
and on proper occasions received his marked 
attention. I have felt the warmest attachment 
for him as a man, and my confidence in him 
as an able commander remains unshaken. I 
feel every assurance that he will at all times do 
me ample justice, and nothing could give me 
more pain than to see his enemies seize upon 
this occasion to deal out their unfriendly feeling 
and acrimonious dislike ; and as long as he 
continues, (as in my humble opinion he has 
hitherto done,) to make the wisest arrange- 
ments and most judicious disposition which 
the forces under his command will justify, I 
shall nui hesitate to unite with the army in 
bestowing upon him that confidence which he 
BO richly merits and which on no occasion has 
been withheld. 

" Your friend, 

"George Crochan, 
"Mafor nth infantry, commanding 
"Lower Sandusky." 



Harrison's old sokliers singing in verse the praises 
of their patriotic and brave commander. 

OLD FORT MEIGS. 

BY A SOLDIER WHO FOUGHT THERE. 

Air — " O / lonely is the forest shade." 
O ! lonely is our old green fort, 

Where oft in days of old, 
Our gallant soldiers bravely fought, 
'Gainst savage allies bold. 
But with the change of years have past 
That unrelenting foe, 
Since we fought here with Harrison, 
A long time ago. 

It seems but yesterday I heard, 

From yonder thicket nigh, 
Th' unerring rifle's sharp report, 

The Indian's startling cry. 
Yon brooklet flowing at our feet, 

With crimson gore did flow. 
When we fought here with Harrison, 

A long time ago. 

The river rolls between its banks. 

As when of old we came. 
Each grassy path, each shady nook, 

Seems to me still the same ; 
But we are scattered now, whose faith 

Pledged here, through weal or wo, 
With Harrison our soil to guard, 

A long time ago. 

But many a soldier's lip is mute, 

And clouded many a brow. 
And hearts that beat for honour then, 

Have ceased their throbbing now. 
We ne'er shall meet again in life 

As then we met, I trow. 
When we fought here with Harrison, 

A long time ago. 



Harrison^s civil Character. — While Hamson 
was governor of Indiana, he appears to have 
possessed an unusual faculty of conciliating, 
not only the respect, but the warm affections of 
those placed under his authority. This was 
owing not more to the suavity of his manners, 
and the evident goodness of his heart, than to 
the disinterestedness, the moderation, and the 
wisdom with which he exercised the extensive 
powers entrusted to him. In the appointment 
of all public officers, judges only excepted, he 
appealed to the people ; and uniformly selected 
those who appeared to enjoy the confidence ot 
their fellow-citizens. He acted upon this prin 
ciple even to the sacrifice of private fi'iendship 
and political feeling — having more than once 
appointed to ofl!ice persons who were opposed 
to him in sentiment, both with regard to men 
and to measures. He also refused to accept 
any of those fees, whether as governor or super- 
intendent of Indian affairs, which before his 
time had been customarily paid. 



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AH hut fhe Crown. — The following descrip- 
tion of Mr. Van Buren's regal pomp and 
splendour was furnished by the Washington 
correspondent of the Boston Atlas, under dute 
of January 14th; 1840, the truth of which has 
never been denied by the Globe, or any other 
administration paper. 

"Mr. Van Buren is evidently a vain man, 
and his vanity lies within a narrow circle. He 
is fond of pomp, and show, and the trappings 
of power, as all his actions declare. He dresses 
in the height of fashion, and his equipage is 
the most magnificent that dashes through the 
avenues of this magnificent city. His public 
dinner parties are also splendid beyond descrip- 
tion. The table is tricked out with all the 
ornaments that the richest jewellers can pro- 
duce. The centre is garnished with a pyramid 
of fantastic finery, and a co/npkte service of 
gold plate has recently been added to the tur- 
niture of the White House, to dazzle the eyes 
of visitors. This service comprises knives, 
forks, and spnons of gold — dishes of gold, 
and tirns of gold." 

Who can wonder that the court sycophants 
with Tliiton's silver on their lips, should 
sneer at log cabins and hard cider. 



General Harrison's kindness won the affections, 
anil Ills bravery coniniantletl the respect and admira- 
tion even of his enemies. 

General Harrison. — In the Western Star, 
of April 3d, published in Liberty, Missouri, we 
find a letter addressed to the editor by two of Te- 
cumseli's warriors, Chamblee, who was his aid, 
and William Caldwell, one of his commanding 
officers. They both reside near to Council 
Blufls, among the Shawnee tribe, of which 
Caldwell is now head chief. In this letter they 
state their astonishment in seeing it stated in 
some of the papers sent to them, that General 
Harrison wns called a coward. "If .say they, 
" the departed could rise again, they would say 
to the white man, that General Harrison was the 
terror of the Tomaliawkers." They state their 
acquaintance with him commenced in 1796, 
and they had many friendly smokes with him 
till IS II. Then their tobacco smoke was 
changed into powder smoke. " We then," say 
they, "found Harrison a brave and humane 
man." They conclude by saying that they are 
the only two survivors of that day in this coun- 
try; and hope that the good white men will 
protect the name of General Harrison. 



From the Philadelphia Evening Star. 
(Xj' It will be perceived by the following 
announcement, that the chief magistrate of this 
great republic has conferred an office of honour, 
profit, and trust, upon the head devil of the Loco- 
Foco-Fanny-Wright-Agrarian-Infidel horde of 
New York. Shame upon him ! What will the 
religious, moral, and order-loving portion of the 
American community say to this outrage upon 
their feelings T 

9 



Appointment hi/ Ihe President. — Ely Moore, 
surveyor of the district and inspector of the 
revenue for the port of New York, to take 
effect on the 1st of July next, In the place of 
Hector Craig. 



"ONE FIRE MORE." 
The following anecdote was related by Mr. 
Corwin, of Ohio, at the HaiTisburg Conven- 
tion. — Let the friends of reform read it, and let 
" one fire more" be their battle cry in their 
great conflict for Harrison and Liberty. 

I remember, sir, when a boy, to have listenrd 
with strong interest to the narrative of one who 
had been present at the battle of the Rapids, 
where General Wayne finally vanquished the 
Indian forces in the northwest, and gave peace 
to a widely extended frontier settlement. The 
old soldier said, that whilst the battle was raging 
hottest, many in that wing of the army where 
he was, were beginning to falter and think of a 
retreat. Just at the moment when this feeling 
began to be prevalent, a young lieutenant, who 
was known as the confidential aid of old Mad 
Anthony, galloped up to the line and called to 
the men, with a voice that was heard above the 
roar of battle, "Onward! my brave fellows! 
the enemy is flying, one fire more and the day 
is ours." Sir, that lieutenant was Win. II, 
Harrison, now the bearer of that glorious ban- 
ner under which we wage war against usurping 
power, crafty speculation, and blind hostility to 
the good old maxims of our fathers. There are 
foes, there are our country's foes ; let me exhort 
you in the language of the young lieutenant — 
" One fire more, and the day is ours." 

Our neighbour of the Advertiser, in spite of 
his desperate efforts at cheerfulness in relation 
to the Virginia elections, shows an awfully 
woful face. We advise the loco-foco central 
committee to appoint a sub-committee of three 
to hold up his under jaw, otherwise he will 
absolutely frighten the whole party. 

Our neighbour of the Advertiser savs, that 
the proposed committee of three, for kofUng up 
his under jaw, has been duly appointed. Pro- 
bably we shall soon relieve them of their ardu- 
ous task. We think we can teach the fellow 
to hold his jaw without assistance- — Prentice. 

" Sub-treamn'ers and Bloodhounds. — Both 
imports from hard money countries; Americans 
will show at the next election that both are un- 
congenial to the freedom of their institutions." 

This toast was given at the meeting of the 
Whigs in the city of New York, held on the 
tenth instant, it being the birthrday of General 
Harrison. It couples two species of animals 
together which should never be separated ; let 
the one follow the other : they are both blood- 
suckers — both keen to scent out their prey. 
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The moral feeling of ihe community has been 
shockeil by the idea of employing bloodhininds 
to hunt the poor Indian from the land of his 
fathers, and all the outrages and blunders the 
administration have committed, and all the 
Misery they have brought upon the people by 
their folly, and obstinacy, and ignorance, has 
not cast so much odium upon them as this 
bloodhound warfare upon the Indians. 

The sub-treasurers and bloodhounds ! let the 
one " fallow in the footsteps" of the other — both 
identified with the present administration, to 
whom they will stick like the shirt of Nessus, 
and with the same fatal tenacity, S. 

Harrison's Self-denial a7id Consideration for 
Others. — It often happened to Harrison and his 
troops, while engaged in the terrible warfare 
which his genius so happily terminated, to 
suffer great privations. Frequently their pro- 
visions were so scanty that there was not 
enough to divide among the men. On such 
occasions, Harrison would not take a morsel 
while there was one common soldier to be 
provided, and he invariably declined the prof- 
fered food, like a generous-hearted, self-denying 
patriot. It was such conduct as this, connected 
with his bravery and excellent judgment, that 
endeared him to his soldiers, so that they ac- 
knowledged that they could njcver figut so 

WELL AS UNDEIl UIS COMMAND. 

THE OPPRESSORS OF THE POOR, 

OR HARD MONET RULERS. 

Appropriately so termed, because it will be hard 

to obtain, 

REDUCTION OF \VAGE.S. 

Wnrkinsmen ! will yoii coi-isent to be placed upon 
a level vv'ith European serfs'? or will yoa resolve to 
live like Free American Citizens? 

In avowing a desire to reduce wages to the 
lowest specie standard, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. 
Grundy, and Mr. Calhoun have brought upjn 
themselves the just indignation of that large 
class of people who earn their bread by the sweat 
ef the brow and the honest labour of their 
hands, and who have shown themselves more 
convcrsTit with their own interests — zealous 
and watchful of their own rights, than these 
gentlemen seemed to expect. 

He who can suppose the people of this coun- 
try will sanction any measure, or support any 
Ket of men whose object is to reduce wages to 
the lowest specie standard, must greatly under- 
rate the intelligence of that class of people whom 
tliey would thus trample upon, and take them 
to be the degraded and spiritless beings they 
would make them. We thank God the Ame- 
rican pcDple arc not yet prepared to receive the 
yoke of vassalage, nor submit to the shackles 
of oppression ; they know their own value too 
well, and estimate their own dignity too highly 
to allow those who would lord it over them, tu 
hay tkfir labour far fifteen or twenty cents a 
duy. 



That they may see what the standard of 
wages is in " hard money" countries, to which 
Mr. Buchanan and others would reduce labour 
in this country, we subjoin the following table, 
showing the rates of wages in several of these 
countries. The table is of unquestionable au- 
thenticity, having been prepared by the British 
secretary of state, from accounts received from 
various British consuls, and printed by order of 
Parliament. In the original table the price is 
given in shillings and pence, we have substi- 
tuted dollars and cents so as to bring it more 
directly in comparison with the prices of Ame- 
rican labour. 



Country 
and 

district. 



France :- 
Calais 



Boulogne 

Havre 

Brest 

Nantes 

Charante 

Bardeaux 
Bayonne 

Marseilles 

Corsica 
Germany : — 
Dantzig 

Mecklenburg 

Holstein 

Netherlands 
S. Holland 

W. Flanders 
Italy :— 
Trieste 

Austria 

Lonibardy 
Genoa 

Tuscany 



Description 

of 
labourers. 


Yearly 
wages.. 


Daily 
wages. 




$• $ 


cts. els. 


Ploughmen 


5 to 8 




Shepherds 


13 




Labourers 




15 


Ploughmen 






Labourers 




10 


Farm serv'ts 






generally 


8 to 12 




do. 


5 to 6 




Labourers 




17 


Farm serv'ts 






generally 


310 8 




Labourers 




2! to 30 


do. 




10 to 12 


Shepherds 


10 to 12 




Labourers 




9 to 14 


do. 




22 


Farm serv'ts 


3 to 4 




Labourers 






Farm serv'ts 


5 , 




Labourers 




9 to 14 


Farm serv'ts 


4 to 5 




Labourers 




14 


Farm serv'ts 


10 to 12 




Labourers 




12 to 23 


Farm serv'ts 


5 




Labourers 




24 


do. 




12 


do. 




IG to 20 


do. 




8 to 10 


do. 




8 to 16 


Farm serv'ts 


4 to 5 




Labourers 




10 to 16 


do. 






Farm serv'ts 


2 




Labourers 




21 



with 
do. 

without 

with 

do. 

without 

with 
without 

do. 
• with 

do. 
without 

with 
without 

with 
without 

with 
without 

with 

without 

with 

without 

with 
without 

with 

do. 

do. 

do. 
without 

with 
without 



And this is the condition to which the admi 
nistration proposes to reduce the free labour of 
this country ; this is their plan for improving 
the condition of the labouring part of the com- 
munity. This is the " penny a day and seven 
shillings for an ox" system. Well did Mr. Mer- 
rick say in his speech : — 

" Now, sir, I am greatly in hopes our people 
will read and ponder over this table ; that they 
will there see that in France yearly wages for 
an able-bodied man range from thirty-eight to 
twQ hundred and fifty shillings, and day la- 
bourers get in that country from four and a half 



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to fifteen pence per day, and whenever they got 
as much as live pence they have to find them- 
selves. In Germany wages are still lower, and 
range by the year between lifty-two to one hun- 
dred shillings, and day labourers receive from 
four and a half to seven pence per day, and 
find themselves in food. In South Holland, 
farm hands get by the year from two hundred 
to two hundred and fifty shillings, and day 
labourers from three to four pence per day, and 
are found. And so on, sir. Whoever will 
take the trouble to examine the tabic, which is 
olficial and authentic, will see that in these 
countries, which are held up to us as such 
bright examples of hard money countries — 
France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy — wages 
by the year for an able-bodied, sound, healthy 
man, nowhere exceeds two hundred and fifty 
sliillings, and, in many instances, fall as low as 
forty, fifty, and sixty shilUngs, and the daily 
wages range from three to nine and twelve 
pence ; rising in one place, and only one, to 
twenty pence, and the labourer finding himself. 
What a commentary on the hard money policy ? 
What hope is there for a man born the son of 
poor parents ever to better his condition 1 What 
ray of hope is there to stimulate him to exer- 
tion! None, none! He who is born there a 
peasant, dies a peasant. Those born to the 
plough, die at the plough tail ; and all that the 
longest life of labourers' toil can procure for 
them is coarse and scanty means of subsist- 
ence. Think you, sir, these people are made 
happy because theirs are hard money countries] 
Is this the prosperity boasted of when we are tri- 
umphantly told of the immense amounts of gold 
and silver held by their great capitalists 1 Is 
this an example worthy of our imitation ? 
Think you, sir, the high blood of AMERICAN 
FREEMEN will submit to this 1 NEVER !" 



THE VOICE OF PATRIOTISM LOUDER 
THAN THE VOICE OF PARTY. 

Let every true Republican read llie fallowing manly 
and patriotic coiniimnication from a distinguished 
fackson elector of 1S2S and 1832, and Van Buren dec- 
tin- of 1836, and then resolve to fullow the brijiht ex- 
ample, and assist in the glorious work of redeeming 
our beloved., hut abused and oppressed country. 

"I SHAKE OFF VA\ BTJREMSM." 
This exclamation of a New England farmer, 
who, after a long struggle, burst the bonds of 
party and espoused the cause of the people, 
seems likely to become general throughout the 
Union. Among other important changes of 
this description, the Ohio Confederate brings us 
the unexpected intelligence that General John 
McElvain, an officer of the regular army dur- 
ing the lust war, a member of both the elec- 
toral colleges which in 1828 and in 1832 gave 
the vote of Ohio to General Jackson, a Van 
IJuren elector from the same state, in 1836, has 
now openly proclaimed his preference for Wm. 
H. Harrison. The reasons for this course are 
thus succinctly stated in General McElvain's 



address to the people of his native state. Let 
all who, like this gallant olRcer, have only been 
restrained by " the chains of party" from avow- 
ing their opinions, imitate him in breaking from 
those ignoble shackles and assuming the attitude 
of a freeman. — Alb. Daili/ Adv. 

Mr. Editor : — It is not because I wish to 
thrust my own opinions before the public un- 
called for, but because others have chosen to 
attach importance to them, that I am induced 
to ask a place in your paper for a few remarks. 
It is known to my fellow-citizens in this part of 
the country, that I have been the early and 
constant advocate of General Jackson and his 
administration, and that I contributed my ex- 
ertions to elect his euccessor. But disapprov- 
ing the course of the Van Buren party in 
many particulars, when General Harrison was 
again brought out in opposition to Mr. Vaa 
Buren, I made up my mind to support him, 
because I knew him to be honest and capable, 
and worthy of the confi<lence of the people. 
As others have been pleased to use my name 
freely, because I am determined to act in this 
matter for myself, and in pursuance of high 
duty to my country, I have thought it proper 
thus publicly to announce my determination, 
through your columns, to our Jackson friends, 
by whom I desire to be properl''- understood. 

In abandoning Mr. Van B j"n and giving 
my vote to General Harrison, let no man sup- 
pose that I abandoned my political opinions, or 
my old political friends with whom I co-operated 
in electing General Jackson to the liigh post 
which he filled with so much credit to himself 
and honour to his country. Those who adhero 
to the principles which the friends of Jackson 
then professed will find me still with them. I 
am aware that a portion of the Van Baren 
party will bitterly condemn my course, and 
charge me with desertion of my principles — in 
the hope of persuading my old friends that I 
have changed. This is not true. My prin- 
ciples are the same, the principles which brought 
General Jackson into power. They may, per- 
haps, set me down as conservative. Well, bo 
it so. They are at liberty to call me by this or 
any other party name ; but I must have the 
privilege of voting for whom I please. I am 
resolved not to be collared by party or party 
names. There is no material dillerence be- 
tween the great bulk of the two parties, as to 
the manner in which they desire the govern- 
ment to be administered. The dilferences I 
believe to be among the politicians on both 
sides, whose object it is to gather a harvest of 
" fat things" themselves, and equally at the ex- 
pense of the people. 

It is a proud name enough for me, that I can 
simply call myself an American citizen. I wish 
to be known by no other. I am tired of decep- 
tion. Names are nothing. Honesty of pur- 
pose every thing. I therefore support my old 
general and fellow-soldier, not as a party man. 
but because I know him — and know him to be 
a brave man, a true patriot, and a capable 



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statesman; and, knowing him as I do, had I 
ten thousand votes they should all be his in 
preference to Van Buren. If it was necessary, 
I could go into detail in giving reasons for my 
preference of General Harrison. But I expect 
to meet personally with most of my political 
friends and associates, and will with great plea- 
sure explain verbally why I am constrained to 
sustain General Harrison. For the last year I 
have been dissatisfied with the course of mea- 
sures pursued by the ad ministration, and consider 
the legislation of the Van Buren party in the 
state government as peculiarly objectionable. 
And much as I have disliked the course of the 
leaders of the Whig party, I have longed to see 
and do hope to see Mr. Van Buren leave the 
White House on the 4th of March next. To 
many of my friends these feelings and wishes 
are not new. Yet, so strongly have I been bound 
by the chains of party, that I confess I have 
been wanting in nerve openly to proclaim my 
opinions. I had persuaded myself to slip along 
until the election, in silence and inactivity, un- 
less (which I supposed would probably be the 
fact) I should be called upon to be the A^an 
Buren candidate for Congress, which would 
make it necessary for me to declare my opinions 
freely and frankly. But being appointed a 
member of the Democratic State Central Com- 
mittee, I fot'i'i; that neutrality was no longer 
possible. I therefore again reviewed the two 
political parties, (the extremes of both I abhor,) 
and came to the conclusion that there was, in- 
deed, so little difference between the honest men 
of the two parties, as I had served two cam- 
paigns under the old hero of Fort Meigs and 
the Thames, I would go and serve a second 
under Van Buren. In this conclusion I soon 
found I had erred. There were differences, I 
found, between the central committee and my- 
self, on subjects of vital interest to my country, 
which could not be reconciled. 

When I again reviewed the late message of 
the president to Congress, his former dictatorial 
message, and the destructive measures of (I can- 
not say a true Jackson legislature, but) the Ohio 
legislature, which were bringing ruin upon the 
country, it was apparent that, if I retain£\d a 
place in that committee, I should be compelled 
to sanction with my name what my judgment 
condemned and my love of country abhorred. 
Under these circumstances, I plucked up cou- 
rage, (as I had done once before under the 
" Old Granny and Coward," as some call him,) 
and resigned my membership in said committee, 
I now only regret that I had not acted with 
more energy and decision, and at once followed 
the dictates of my conscience, which day and 
night admonished me of my duty, in regard to 
this important matter, until I almost hated my- 
self for halting so long between two opinions. 
Perhaps, I ought to ask pardon of the " De- 
mocratic State Central Committee" for my 
wavering conduct — but the shackles are broken, 
and, thank God, I am once more a freeman ! 
And as long as I live I intend to be so. 



I will only further remark, in conclusion, 
that with my decided approbation of the old 
chief, and my determination to support him by 
all proper means, I cannot share in any pro- 
ceedings which smack of dictation to the people. 
The people, in my opinion, are abundantly 
capable, without the help of dictators, to choose 
their own officers. I desire further to say to all 
my old Jackson friends in the city and sur- 
rounding counties, that my house is open from 
this time to the presidential election — and that 
I will esteem it a favour, if they will call on 
me, whenever they find it convenient. " They 
will never find my door shut and the string of 
the latch pulled in." We will confer vviih one 
another, and reason together touching our com- 
mon interests and those of our beloved country, 

I am, sir, your most obedient servant, 

Joax McElvain. 



There is a loco-foco paper published at Ma- 
rietta, Ohio, by the name of the " Marietta 
Ant." The Whigs talk of establishing a rival 
paper to be called the Marietta Vndti.—Freniice, 



When Ex-senator Rives, a few months ago, 
came out so openly and powerfully in favour 
of General Harrison, and against the adminis- 
tration, the whole loco-foco ])ress throughout the 
Union exclaimed, " He is fallen !" " He is not 
fallen !" shouts the lion voice of the Old Do- 
minion. — Ibid. 



THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION) 
AGAINST THE POOR. 

"But, if tlie effect of this hard money policy upon 
tlie del)tor class be injurious, it is still more disas- 
trous, if possible, on the /aftrtHCinn- classes. Enterprise 
will he checked or stopped, employment will beconiji 
dilTicult, and the poorer classes will be subject to the 
f;reatest privations and distresses. Heretofore it has 
been one of the pretensions and boasts of the domi- 
nant party, that they sought to elevate the poor by 
depriving the rich of undue advantages. Now their 
[lolicy is to reduce the wages of labour, and this is 
openly avowed ; and it is agreed Iiy them that it is 
necessary to reduce the wages of .American labour, 
to the low standard of European labour, in order to 
enable the American manufacturer to enter into a 
successful competition with the European manufac- 
turer in the sale of their respective fabrics. Thus is 
this dominant party perpetually changing; one day 
cajoling the pool, and fulminating against the rich; 
and the next cajoling the rich, and fulminating against 
the poor." — Mr. Clay's speech against the Sub-lreasur7j 
Bill. 

If the people of the United States be not yet 
convinced that the policy the administration at 
Washington have been pursuing for some years 
past, is destructive of the best interests of the 
country, ruinous to its prosperity, and oppressive 
to the people, and especially to the Libouring 
classes, and those of moderate means, neither 
would they be convinced though one rose from 
the dead. For years have they been cajoled with 
the flattering tale that they were to have a cur- 



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rencv of n-oWand silver, an J were toM that these 
would ^listen in the purses and delight the eves 
of every poor man in the country. Nothing, 
they were assured, prevented this hut the Banks ; 
destroy these institutions, and the golden age 
would soon return; war, therefore, was waged 
against the banlvs, and against the rich — " war 
to the knife, and the knife to the hilt." But 
what is the result? Banks have hcen de- 
nounced, the rich have heen denounced, all who 
traded on borrowed capital have been denounc- 
ed, and the credit system itself has been de- 
nounced ; and what is the result ] Where are 
the precious metals we were promised should 
flow up the Mississippi river"? Not in the 
vaults of the government, for the government 
is bankrupt, and is compelled to issue treasury 
notes to pay its debts. True, the government 
refuses to receive any thing but specie from the 
people, and pays specie to its office-holders, but 
it is nevertheless bankrupt ; it has not the gold 
and silver it boasted should be so plenty ; nor 
have the banks, nor the people — it is not in the 
country. 

But have the poor been benefited ? Do they 
find their condition improved ? Is labour in 
demand, and does it command high prices? 
On the contrary, are not the poor depressed? 
Do they not find it difficult to get employment 
even at reduced wages ? This cannot be de- 
nied ; and not only are the poor oppressed, but 
every class of people, farmers, manufacturers, 
merchants, and capitalists suflTer, all arc made 
poorer and none rich by the present state of 
things. A blight has come over the country — 
clouds darken the horizon — fear and anxiety 
are depicted upon every countenance — no one 
can foresee what the future is to bring forth — 
the most sagacious know not what calculations 
to make, or what to set about; universal di.strust 
and despondency pervade the country ; those 
who have any thing to lose, hold on to their 
purse-strings, as if they were in a community 
of robbers, and those who have nothing to lose, 
and nothing but their integrity and industry to 
depend upon, look with fearful anxiety to the 
future. 

And these are the gold and silver times the 
government has been promising us! These 
are the fruits of the various "experiments" it 
lias been making upon us! Let us go on in 
this way a year or two longer, and our poor 
will be in the condition of the poor of Europe ; 
they will be obliged to labour for a bare sub- 
sistence, without even the hope of bettering 
their condition. 



PRESENTATION OF THE EAGLE, 

At a great convention held at Columbus, on 
the 22d ultimo, an eagle was brought in by an 
old hunter, who was one of the delegates from 
Crawford county. It had heen caught but a 
few days previous, on the battle ground of Fort 
Meigs. After the adjournment of the conven- 
tion, the eagle was given to the Hamilton 



county delegation, to bring to Cincinnati, and 
present to General Harrison. We learn from 
the Cincinnati KeiJuhlican, that the delegation, 
with a concourse of Harrison Democrats, visited 
North Bond for this purpose on the Gth instant. 
The eagle was sent forward on board of the 
steamer Ben Franklin, escorted by the military 
of Cincinnati, and some tiiousands of the citi- 
zens. The hale old Log Cabin Chief received 
the vast concourse on the lawn, in front of his 
house. Major Charles S. Clarkson presented 
the eagle with a very excellent address, to 
which the general replied in his most felicitous 
manner. The Cincinnati Republican says that 
all was joy and enthusiasm. 



General Ilnrrison ! will be tlie enthusiastic response 
of the I'EOPi.E, to the following question: — 

WHO WILL GET THE N.\TION OUT OF 
THE MUD1 

The following dialogue is represented as hav- 
ing taken place a few days ago, between an old 
gentleman from the western part of Illinois, who 
had been a staunch supporter of General Jack- 
son, and even of Martin Van Buren in 1836, 
and his friend in Springfield, a warm-hearted 
Harrison man: — 

" And you think that Old Tip can bring the 
government back to its former purity ?" said the 
Harrison man. 

" I do," said his friend — " for I remember 
many years ago, when driving my team to 
Mad River Mills, that my wagon got into a 
mire-hole, from which the horses could not 
draw it. While in this dilemma, General Har- 
rison came riding by. Without delay the old 
Republican dismounted, pulled off his coat, and 
putting his shoulder to the wheel, helped me to 
get my wagon out of the rut. The people's 
wagon of the government is in the mire-hole 
of corruption, and I firmly believe that General 
Harrison is the only man whose services the 
people will accept in helping them to get it out 
once more on hard ground." 



Talk nf rcraf/fy .' / .' where the Globe is concern- 
ed 1 that corrupt and prostituted rehielc of mendacity 
and low vituperation would break down should the 
smallest package of thuth happen to liiid its way 
on board. 

A QUESTION OF VERACITY. 

The Globe of Tuesday, stigmatizes General 
Hauihsox as the '■'hero of defeats and fdl- 
nres." 

Colonel RrcHAnn M. John'sott, now vice- 
president, in his speech in Congress, said of 
General Hahuison that, 

" During the late war he was longer in active 
service than any general officer ; he was, per- 
haps, oftener in action than any of them, and 

NEVKIl SUSTAINKll A DEFEAT." 

The Globe's authority is a federalist, probably 
inimical to the war, and friendly to Proctor and 
the Indians, 



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Our autnority is a Democrat. 

The loco-foco-fetleral Calhoun coalition charge 
General Harrison with having received large 
emoluments in the aggregate from the various 
public offices he has held. 

President Madison said: 

" General Hakrison has done more for his 
country with less compensation for it, than 
any man living." 



A patriotic and admirable toast, offered at a 
Democratic festival, during the wrar, October 
1813, by James Madison Pouter, brother 
of the governor, and now president judge of 
the twelfth judicial district, given at a Demo- 
cratic celebration, in honour of General Harri- 
son's victories as commander-in-chief of the 
northwestern army. The celebration took place 
on the 23d of October, 1813, as soon as the/ 
news of the victory of the Thames had reached 
Philadelphia. The account of the celebration 
is given by the Philadelphia Standard, abridged 
from the Democratic Press of October 27, 1813. 
Here is the toast — Porter was a good "judge" 
then : — 

" By the first vice-president, J. M. POR- 
TER : General Wilkinson — May his success 

be F-aUAL TO THAT OF THE BfiAVE HAR- 
RISON, and may Chauncey, like Perry, after 
beating the enemy on water, aid the general to 
beat them on land." 



The Harrison Indian Summkb to be enjoyed by 
a regenerated people before the ides of November, 

1640. 

FIRE ON THE PRAIRIES. 

At a great Democratic Harrison meeting held 
recently at Boston, Governor Everett being 
called on, was received with " nine enthusiastic 
and hearty cheers." In the course of his re- 
sponse the following happy metaphor, the In- 
dian summer was expressed by him. He (Go- 
vernor Everett) woqld, in conclusion, congratu- 
late the meeting upon the auspicious omens 
in favour of their cause everywhere to be seen. 
Many, he said, were wont to attribute the In- 
dia?i summer, to autumnal _^res on the prairies. 
He had no doubt, if this were the case, that, in 
consequence of the fires which would sweep 
with irresistible might through the boundless 
prairies of the west next November, an Indian 
suMMEB of no ordinary splendour was in store 
for the country. 



Tlie following jeu d'esprit squints at the pecxdiar 
kivd of cravat wadding used by Mr. Benton while at 
Chapel Hill. 

Will that "sterling Democrat," Thomas H. 
Benton, (!!!) ever receive justice at the hands 
of his opponents'! — Penn. Bern. 

To that interrogatory Benton himself might 
reply, — " I'll be hanged if I do." — Prentice. 



Going it in fine style among the hardy and brave 
mountain boys. A good many of Harrison's old sol- 
diers in those, parts, ^' I ^uess." 

Q^A West Virginia paper says : " Old Tip 
goes it" through that section of the state " with 
his tail curled." 



Thomas Jefferson's opinion ciC party names. 
" I consider the party division of whig and 
TDiiT the most wholesome which can exist in 
any government, and well worthy of being 
nourished, to keep out those of a more danger- 
ous character." — Jefferson. 



Bread and butier patriotism, or Profession versus 
Practice. 

" When I see an office-holder interfering in 
elections, it occurs to me that he is thinking of 
his salary and his bread, and is therefore an 
unfit adviser of the people." 

Mil. GllUNDY IN THE U. S. SeNATE. 

Weigh this advice, ye impudent and falsifying 
Custom-house and Post-otiicers!!; who are eternally 
and unhlushingly interfering with the elective fran- 
chise — in opposition to decency^ — and the express di- 
rections of Thomas Jeflerson. 

IMPORTANT TRIAL. 

The following highly important trial appears to 
exciie the most intense interest throughout the Union. 
We entertain not the shadow of a doubt ihiit the final 
decision will be Iiailed by a grateful People with 
illuminations, bonfires siiui festivals, snch as were in- 
dulged in throughout the country during the last war, 
by the ti'ue Democratic Republicans, in testifying their 
joy and gratitude for General Harrison's victories 
over our British and savage enemies. 

General Harrison vs. General Ruin. 

Ever since last December term, these two 
celebrated characters have been involved in liti- 
gation before the People's court, and although 
in every trial the jury have found a verdict for 
the plaintiff, in con.sequence of the overwhelm- 
ing character of the testimony adduced, yet 
the counsel for the defendant have in every 
case moved for a new trial. In December next, 
however, this cause will be carried up to the 
highest court of judicature, when it is confi- 
dently anticipated that Chief Justice Electoral 
Colleges will pronounce the almost unanimous 
decision of the court in favour of confirming 
the verdicts of the several juries in the Peo- 
ple's COURT. 

Counsel for plaintiff, Incorruptible Integrity, 
Undaunted Bravery, Vniversitl Prosperity, 
Employment fur the Poor, and Remuneration 
for Labour, Esquires. 

For defendant. Rank Seljisline.<!f!, Base De- 
traction, Unblushing Falseluxid, Black In gra- 
titude, Loaves and Fishes, and Spoik of Office, 
Esquires. 

It is said that the defendant has paid such 
excessiie fees to his counsel as to involve him in 
absolute bankruptcy 



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Ye hlnr.k-licarted and uvgroieful traducers of un- 
daunted bravery and incorrvjilible patriot i-m ! hear an- 
other political opponent, but a brave and magnani- 
mous soldier. 

As additional corrohoratinn nf the hieh tpstimony 
already aiiihiicd, rrgarding the battle of the Thames, 
we subjoin a statement recently made, on that sub- 
ject, by Colonel John Speed Smith of Kentucky, who 
was one of General Harrison's aids on that occasion. 
CoVonel Smitti is a i;entleinan of the hi^^hest respecta- 
bility, and has always acted with the supporters of the 
present administration. His testimony entirely refutes 
the gfoes misrepresentation made at the late ses- 
sion of the Ohio legislature, in regard to the conduct 
of G(!nera1 Harrison in that battle. 

Similar statements have been published by Colonels 
O'Fallon and Todd, and the Honourable John ChaniT 
bers, who wuro also aids to General Harrison, in the 
baltUi of the Thames. These, we are compelled to 
omit, for want of space, but they have been exten- 
sively circulated through the medium of the newspa- 
per press. 

^'■Richmond, Ky. March 6, 1840. 
"Sin,— Your letter of the 17th ultimo was received 
on yesterday, in which you state, that, "It has been 
openly avowed that General Harrison was at no time 
in the battle of the Thames, nor within two miles of 
the battle ground — that the entire plan of operations 
was projected by Colonel R. M. .lohnson — that he led 
the troops on to conquest, and that General Harrison 
had no part or lot in the matter. My humiliation is 
deep, that a necessity should e.xist, produced by party 
rancor, to prove facts attested by history for more 
than a quarter of a century, and which have never 
before been questioned. That ignorance and credu- 
lity abound to an extent to render such baseless 
assertions available, bespeaks a lamentable state of 
public intelligence, and portends no good to the 
republic. 

" That Colonel Johnson led the van, and brought 
on the battle, is true — that he behaved with the ut- 
most gallantry, is also true : but your letter contains 
tlw first suggestion which has ever reached me, that 
'the entire plan of operation was projected by him.' 
The magnanimity of Colonel Johnson will repudiate, 
with proud indignation, such an etfort to cluster ad- 
ditional laurels upon his brow, thus unjustly torn from 
the brow of his general. Colonel Johnson received 
orders, as to the form and manner of charge from 
General Harrison in person, in the face and almost 
in sight of the enemy. The general was with the 
regiment when the charge was sounded. As Johnson 
moved to the charge, the general started for the line 
of infantry, which was drawn up in order of battle. 
He had not gone far, before turning to me, (and to 
the best of my recollection, I w.-is the only one of his 
aids then with him,) he said, 'Pursue Colonel John- 
son with your utmost speed — see the effect of his 
charge, and the position of the enemy's artillery, and 
return as quickly as possible.' Having e.\ecuted this 
order as promptly as practicable, I met him on my 
return, pressing forward with the front of the infan- 
try. Upon reporting, that Colonel Johnson had broke 
the enemy's line — that they were surrendering, and 
their cannon was in our possession — he exclaimed, 
in an animated tone, 'Come on, my brave fellows, 
Proctor and his whole army will soon be ours.' Soon 
after this, an officer, (I believe the late Judge John 
McDowell, of Ohio,) rode up, and reported, that the 
left wing, at or near the crotchet, was suffering 
severely, and in great disorder. This communication 
was made in the hearing of the soldiers. The gene- 
ral contradicted the latter part of the statement in the 
most emphatic manner — but giving order to the next 
ill command to push forward, he dashed with the 
messenger to the indicated point of conflict and con- 



fusion, and found the contest pretty close and sevcro. 
A portion of Johnson's regiment, owing to the im- 
practicability of llie grounil for horse, had dismount- 
ed, and was fighting on foot and mingled with the 
infantry — which had been, to some extent, the cause 
of the confusion. Order was soon restored, and the 
left wing closed to the front, (which formed the 
crotchet,) under the personal supervision of General 
Harrison. In the mean time, some of our soldiers 
were shot within less than ten feet of the general; 
for the conflict here was sharp and animated, and 
continued for some time. With the exception of the 
charge made by Colonel Johnson's regiment. General 
Harrison was in the most exposed and dangerous pari 
of the battle. 

" It is due to the occasion to relate the following 
incident. The day before the battle, the army was 
impeded in its march by the destruction of a bridge 
across a branch of the Thames, up which it was 
moving, at or near the branch. Colonel Johnson had 
been ordered to cross this stream at some mills, two 
or thro". miles above the mouth. The road led him by 
the bridge. A portion of his regiment had a brush 
with a party of Indians, posted in cabins, on the op- 
posite side of the Thames and the branch, and also 
under the thick covert along their banks, to dispute 
the passage of the stream, and harass all attempts to 
ri-pair the bridge. As soon as the firing was heard, 
the general hurried to the scene of action, accom- 
panied by a portion of his family, of which Commo- 
dore Perry was one. When I arrived, I found Gene- 
ral Harrison, Commodore Perry, and other officers, (I 
think General Cass was one,) in an open piece of 
ground, near the bridge. Colonel Johnson had pass- 
ed, and a small portion of his re^rment, previously 
dismounted, under the command of Captain Benja- 
min Warfield, and some infantry which had hurried 
up, were carrying on the skirmish. Major Wood had 
been ordered up with a small piece oi artillery. Com- 
modore Perry urged General Harrison to withdraw, 
as he was too much exposed for the commander-ia- 
chief If I mistake not, General Cass united with the 
commodore, and offered to remain and see his orders 
executed. The general, with Perry and the residue 
of his suite, started off; but General Harrison went 
but a few steps and roturned, and retained his posi- 
tion near the cannon, until the Indians were dislodged 
and driven, tl;e bridge repaired, and the army put in 
motion to cross. During this wiiole time, lie was as 
much or more exposed than the soldiers, being on 
horseback all the while. The couimodore afterwards 
remonstrated with him against this unnecessary ex- 
posure, observing, 'that in the open sea he could 
stand fire tolerably well, but there was no fun in 
being shot at by a concealed enemy.' The general 
justified his conduct by saying, 'The general who 
commands republican volunteers, in whose ranks the 
best blood of the country is to be found, must neve-r 
think of his own safely, at least until his trocps be- 
come familiar with his disregard of personal danger.' 
Hardihood itself has never denied Perry's courage. 
Chambers and Todd, of Kentucky, and O'Fallon of 
Missouri, the olner aids of General Harrison at the 
battle of the Thames, are still living, and can give 
you adilitonal ficts, if required. 

" Although it is not in direct response to any part 
of your letter, I must be permitted to say, that my 
intercourse with General Harrison left the conviction 
on my mind, that he was a gentleman, a soldier, and 
a patriot, and I deprecate most sincerely, the injustice 
attempted to be done him, by a portion of that party 
with which I have always voted. 
" 1 am, sir, respectfully, 

"your obedient servant, 

"J. Speed Smith. 
"M. B. Corwin, Esq." 




PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. 



The unprecedented demand for the Tippecanoe Almanac having induced the publishers to 
authorize the preparation of eight additional pages of matter for the present edition, the editor 
cheerfully avails himself of the privilege ; as it affijnls him an opportunity of thus publicly 
assuring those honourable exceptions among the olficeholders of the general government who, 
in the language of Genkhal Jac^s .•, have not beon guilty of the "abuses that have 

BROUGHT THE PATRONAGE OK THE FEIIEIlAl, GOVEUN.MENT INTO CONFLICT WITH THE 

FREEDOM OF ELECTIONS ;" and also those members of the administration party, who, in advo- 
cating the cause of Mr. Van Buren, do not descend to the base and despicable means of ca- 
lumniating the character of an honoukakle opponent, that the harsh epithets which have 
been occasionally introduced are not intended for them, as the editor is proud to recognise among 
them many valued friends, with some of whom he is uiiited by the ties of consanguinity ; but 
he wishes it to be distinctly undeustood, that his remarks are intended to be applicable only 
to those officers of the federal government, who are constantly and impudently interfering 
with the " freedom of elections," to the base plunderers of the people's money, and to 
those FALSE witnesses who, in the habitual violation of the ninth commandment, utter the 
foulest, most atrocious, and oft-refuted slanders against the spotless reputation of the gallant 
soldier, incorruptible patriot, and war-worn veteran whom every true Republican in the land 
delighted to honour, iiefore the madness of party attempted to sully a name which should be 
embalmed in the heart of every lover of his country. 

Upon those false witnesses, whether as individuals, or as the conductors of a corrupt 
and subsidized press, who, in the full effulgence of historic truth, are guilty of the black in- 
gratitude of employing in reference to General Harrison, the term " coward," or other oppro- 
brious epithets, he fastens the charge of WILFUL, DELIBERATE, and UNBLUSHING 
FALSEHOOD, and to whom, fully aware of tlie responsibility it involves, he would apply a 
j-nore expressive and appropriate term, were it not for a disinclination to the use of language from 
which the advocates of a patiiotic and a righteous cause should, if possible, endeavour to refrain, 

Philadelphia, June '21th, 1840. JOHN C. MONTGOMERY. 



How sweetly the "caged-bird" sinjrs; 
GENERAL HARRISON IN COLUMBUS. 
We give to diiy the substance of General 
Harrison's speech at Columbus, on the 5th inst. 
on his way to Fort Meigs, as reported by the 
Ohio Coriffderate. The editor remarks that, 
on the morning of his departure, " Long before 
the sun, and before the youth of our city were 
astir, the general was up and out. Having 
breakfasted with a friend at a remote part of 
the city, he was soon again surrounded by the 
multitude of our people, who refused to be 
satisfied without seeing and communing with 
him. The period of his departure was at hand, 
the crowd increased, it was impossible that in 
the brief interval every one could be presented 
individually to the general, and all were anxious 
to see and hear him. At the instance of a 
friend, who noticed the popular solicitude, the 
general, from the platform of the door of the 
National Hotel, addressed the people for half I 
an hour or more. We wish that every man in i 
America had heard that speech. How would i 



the defamers of this gi-eat and good man have 
dwindled in their estimation into merited insig- 
nificance ! How would the slanderers who 
impute to him motives which never actuated 
him, and opinions which he never held, and 
designs which he never entertained, and prin- 
ciples which he never cherished, and who in- 
famously ascribe to him imbecility, and decrepi- 
tude, and cowardice — how would these slan 
derers have been indignantly rebuked by thi 
righteous judgment of an insulted people I But 
as they did not and could not hear it — we will 
endeavour to possess them of its substance. 
We took no notes. Neither General Harrison 
nor any other person thought of his making a 
public address two minutes before he commenc- 
ed it. It arose out of the circumstances which 
surrounded him at the moment, and signally 
illustrated a quality of his character to which 
we have before alluded ; the ability always to 
say and to do exactly what is proper to be said 
and done. The reader will bear in mind, there- 
fore, that we profess only to give the subject 

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matter, not tho style and expression of the 
speech." 

« GF.TVF.nAL UAimiSOx's REMAllKS. 

General Harrison said he was greatly indebted 
to his fellow-citizens of Columbus and Frank- 
lin cour.ty; the most cordial hospitality had at 
all limes been accorded to him by them. So 
long ago as the time when he was honoured 
with the command of the " northwestern 
army," and hehl his head qnarters at Franklin- 
ton, on the other side of the river, it was his 
fortune to find in the people of Franklin 
county, not only good citizens but patriots and 
soldiers. Their unvarying kindness to him 
had laid him under many precious obligations, 
and their generous attentions on the present 
occasion he cheerfully and gratefully acknow- 
ledged. 

He said he had no intention to detain his 
friends by making a spee<?h, and he did so in 
obedience to what he understood to be the de- 
sire of those whom he addressed. He was not 
surprised that the public curiosity was awaken- 
ed in reference to some things which had been 
lately published concerning him, nor was he 
unwilling to satisfy the feelings of his fellow- 
citizens by such proper explanations as became 
him in his present position before the country. 
He confessed that he had suffered deep mortili- 
cation, since he had been placed before the peo- 
ple as a candidate for the highest office in their 
gift — nay, the most exalted station in the world 
— that any portion of his countrymen should 
think it necessary or expedient to abuse, slander, 
and vilify him. His sorrow arose not so much 
from personal — dear as was to him the humble 
reputation he had earned — as from public con- 
siderations. He might draw consolation, under 
this species of injury, from the revelations of 
history, which showed that the best of men, 
who had devoted their lives to the public ser- 
vice, had been the victims of traduction. But 
virtue and truth are the foundations of our 
republican system, when these are disregarded, 
our free institutions must fall, he looked, there- 
fore, at symptoms of demoralization with sincere 
regret, as betokening danger to public liberty. 
A part of the political press, supporting the 
existing administration, and certain partisans of 
Mr. Van Buren, also a candidate for that high 
office to which some of those whom he ad- 
dressed desired to elevate him, had invented 
and propagated many calumnies against him, 
but he proposed on the present occasion to 
speak of one only of the numerous perversions 
and slanders which filled the columns of the 
newspapers, and misrepresented his character 
and conduct. He alluded to the story of his 
famous '' confidential committee" as they called 
it. "The story goes," said General Harrison, 
" that I have not only a committee of con- 
science-keepers, but that they put me in a cage 
fastened with iron bars, and keep me in that." 
(To one who looked at his bright and speaking 
eye, the light which beamed in its rich expres- 
sion, the smile which played upon his counte- 
10 



nance, blending the lineaments of benevolence 
and firnmess, who remembered also that he was 
listening to the voice of a son of old Governor 
Harrison, one of "the signers," the pupil of old 
" Mad Anthony," the hero of Tippecanoe, the 
defender of Fort Meigs, the conqueror of Proc- 
tor, the idea of Wm. Hf.xuY HAnuisox in a 
cage! was irresistibly ludicrous! When the 
laughter had subsided the gci.'-.-ral proceeded.) 
''I liave no committee, fellow-citizeiis ; confi- 
dential or other. It is true that I employed rny 
friend, Major Gwynne, to aid me in returning 
replies to some of the numerous questions pro- 
pounded to me by letters. But to such only 
as any man could answer, one as well as an- 
other. There is scarcely a question of a [lolitl- 
cal nature now agitating the public mind, on 
which I have not long since pnmiulgated my 
opinions, by speeches, published letters, or offi- 
cial acts. A large majority of letters addressed 
to me, purported to seek my views of abolition, 
United States Bank, and other matters con- 
cerning whii'h my views were already in pos- 
session of the public. The most suitable an- 
swer to these, and to well-intentioned persons 
the most satisfactory, was a reference to the 
documents in which my opinions already ex- 
pressed were to be found. Such answers I 
entrusted to my well-tried and i"aithful friend 
Major Gwynne. Letters requiring more par- 
ticular attention I answered myself. Every- 
body who knows Major Gwynne is aware that 
he is not one whom I would emjjloy to write a 
political letter. He is a self-made man, a sol- 
dier, and a gentleman, but neither a politician 
nor a scholar. I asked tlie service of him, be- 
cause he was my friend, and I confided in him, 
and it was plain and simple. My habit is to 
receive, open, and read ray letters myself. Such 
as may be easily answered by another, I hand 
to my friend an endorsation indicating where 
the information sought maybe found ; as thus: 
" refer the writer to speech at Vincennes," or, 
"The answer is seen in a letter to Mr. Denny," 
&c. But it seems that Major Gwyime was 
chairman of a committee of the citizens of Cin- 
cinnati ov of Hamilton county. When the 
fomous Oswego letter was received, it was read, 
and as usual with such letters, I endorsed it 
and h.anded it to Major Gwynne. But, it seems, 
when tue answer was prepared, it was signed 
also by his colleagues of the county or city 
committee. 

Of all this I knevs' nothing, nor in their 
capacity of committee had they any thing to 
do with my letters. Yet by a little mistake 
and much perversion, these gentlemen have 
been erected into a committee of my conscience- 
keepers, and made to shut me up in a cage to 
prevent me from answering interrogatories." 
General Harrison remarked that, had he, indeed, 
called to his assistance the services of a frie nd 
in conducting his correspondence, he would 
i have had high authority to justify him in the 
j measure. It had been said of General Wash- 
[ ington that many of the papers which bear his 
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signature were written by others, and he believed 
it had never been contradicted ; and General 
Breckenridge, aid to General Jackson in the 
late war, had represented himself to be the 
author of much of General Jackson's corres- 
pondence. But he had not done so, to any 
other extent, or in any other sense than as he 
had now explained it, in requesting Major 
Gwynne to refer those addressing inquiries to 
him, to the public sources of information. And 
he would here say, that in all his public life, 
civil and military, there was no letter, report, 
sneech, or order, bearing his name, which was 
net written wholly by his own hand. He said, 
to open, read, and answer all the letters received 
by him, was physically impossible, though he 
should do nothing else whatever. To give his 
hearers an idea of the labour it would require, 
he said, a gentleman then present, was with 
him the morning he left Cincinnati, when he 
took from the post-oflice sixteen letters, there 
were usually half the number at the post-office 
near his residence, twenty-four letters per day. 
Could any man, he asked, give the requisite at- 
tention to such a daily correspondence, even to 
the neglect of every other engagement! True 
it was, that many communications were sent him 
which were not entitled to his notice, sent by 
persons who had no other object but to draw 
from him something which might be used to 
his injury, and the injury of the cause with 
which he was identified ; yet, there were 
enough of those which claimed his respectful 
consideration, for the sources from which they 
came, and the subjects to which they referred, 
to occupy more time and labour than any one 
man could bestow upon them. 

General Harrison said he had alluded parti- 
cularly to this matter of the Committee, be- 
cause it had so recently been the occasion of so 
much animadversion by his political aHversa- 
ries. But it was one only of many misrepre- 
sentations of him, his conduct, his principles, 
and his opinions, with which the party press 
was teeming. He said it would occupy him 
many hours to discuss them, if it were neces- 
sary or proper for him to do so. He referred, 
however, to the Richmond Enquirer; and ex- 
pressed his surprise at the manner in which his 
name and character had been treated by that 
paper. He did so, as it afforded an example 
of the prostitution of the press to party pur- 
poses. That paper, which formerly did more 
than justice, and paid him the highest compli- 
ments as a soldier and civilian — whose editor 
at the time could designate no other man whom 
he considered so well qualified for the respon- 
sible place of Secretary of War — was now 
lending itself to the circulation of the most 
discreditaUle calumnies against him, and en- 
deavouring to persuade his countrymen that he 
was a coward and a federalist. He alluded to 
the evidence upon which the Enquirer sought 
to fasten the accusation, that he was a black 
cockade federalist, i. e., the remarks of Mr. 
■Randolph in the Senate of the United States. 



He said, that the attack of Mr. Randolph was 
met at the moment it was made, and effectually 
disproved. He passed a high encomium upon 
the genius of that remarkable man, and said, 
that those who knew Mr. Randolph, knew that 
he never gave up a point in debate, or receded 
from his ground anywhere, until convicted of 
error. The fact that he made no reply to his 
answer to the charge, is proof to any familiar 
with his character that he himself was satisfied 
that he had erred. General Harrison explained 
the foundation of Mr. Randolph's charge, made 
at a moment of temporary irritation. He said, 
that old Mr. Adams refused to adopt against 
France the measures which his party desired, 
and showed himself in that respect, at least, 
more an American than a partisan. It was 
that course of policy of Mr. Adams which 
commanded his approbation, and induced him 
so to express himself at the time. Mr. Ran- 
dolph remembered the expression, but probably 
forgot the particular subject of it, and thus the 
very fact which proved him to belong to the 
Republican party of 1800, long years after- 
wards, separated from its attendant circum- 
stances, was used to prove him a federalist. Ge- 
neral Harrison expressed himself with much 
.earnestness on the injustice which was thus at- 
tempted to be inflicted on his character in his 
native state, in which, when truth, and virtue, 
and honour had suffered violence everywhere 
else, he had hoped they would survive. 

General Harrison alluded to several other in- 
stances of gross misrepresentations or absolute 
falsehoods, industriously and shamefully pro- 
pagated by a party press. " It seems almost 
incredible, fellow-citizens," said he, " but it is 
true, that from a long speech, filling several 
columns of a paper, two short sentences have 
been taken from different parts of it; these two 
sentences, separated from their context, are put 
together, my name attached to them, and pub- 
lished throughout the land as an authentic do- 
cument." He deplored that state of public sen- 
timent which could tolerate such a system of 
party action, and trusted for the honour of his 
country, and the hopes of liberty, that the 
reformation of such abuses would soon be 
wrought out by the force of a pure and healthy 
public opinion. 

" Why, fellow-citizens," said General Har- 
rison, " I have recently, in that house, (point- 
ing to the State House,) been charged with 
high offences against my country, which, if 
true, ought to cost me my life. Yes," con- 
tinued he, " accusations were there laid to my 
charge, which, being established, would subject 
me, even now, to the severest penalties which 
military law inflicts — for I have always held 
that an officer may not escape the responsibili- 
ties of misconduct by resigning his commis- 
sion. These charges are not made by my com- 
panions in arms, by the eye-witnesses of my 
actions, by the great, and good, and brave men 
who fought by my side or under my command. 
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clear, unequivoral anil distinct; tho testimony 
of Govertior Hhelliy, the veneral)le hero of 
King's Mountain, of the gallant Perry, and of 
many brave and generous s[)irits who saw, and 
knew, and participated in all the operations 
connceted with the battle of the Thames; the 
evidence of impartial and honourable men. the 
concurrent records of history, and the autho- 
rity of universal public opinion, are all cast 
aside, in deference to the reckless assertions of 
those who were either not in being or dandled 
in the arms of their nurses !" General Harri- 
son said, he acknowledged that these calu »:nies 
were disagreeable to him. His good name, 
such OS it was, was his most precious treasure, 
and he did not like to have it mangled by such 
calunniiators. Were it his land which they 
are seeking to destroy ; were it the title deeds 
to his form that they are endeavouring to mu- 
tilate, he could bear their efTects with patience, 
and smile even at their success. But he con- 
fessed, notwithstanding his perfect confidence 
in the justice of his country and the decision 
of an impartial posterity, that these ruthless at- 
tacks upon his military character alU'cted him 
unpleasantly. This policy of his adversaries 
constrained him to consider himself on trial 
before his country. He was not reluctant to 
be tried fairly. The American people being 
his court atid jury ; his adversaries held to 
those rules of evidence established by common 
sense and common right; he feared not tho 
results of the strictest scrutiny, and would 
cheerfully submit to the decision of a virtuous 
and enlightened community. He asked but 
fair dealing and final justice — no more. 

General Harrison alluded to several other in- 
stances of gratuitous and unfounded calumny, 
having no shadow of apology in any fact for 
their invention and publication. He spoke of 
the battle of Tippecanoe ; of the death of the 
brave and lamented Daviess, whose fall had 
been ascribed to him. He said the whole story 
about the white horse was entirely false, and 
that the fate of the gallant Kentuckian had no 
connection whatever with his own white mare, 
which, by accident, was not rode on that occa- 
sion by any one. In remarking upon the slan- 
ders connected with the battle of Ti[ipecanoe, he 
said their refutation, one and all, was found in 
the proceedings of the Legislature of Kentucky, 
and especially in the extraordinary confidence 
reposed in him by the gallant Governor and 
people of that state, when they sub.se(iuently 
honoured him with the command of their army, 
composed of the choice spirits of the land, the 
best blootl of Kentucky. General Harrison 
Kpoke with deep emotion of the trust reposed in 
him by Kentucky, on the occasion alluded to, 
and said that the commission which made him 
the commander of that brave and patriotic 
army of Kentuckians, he hsd always held as 
the most honourable commission which it had 
been the fortune of his life to have conferred 
upon him. 



He referred to a very recent story — got up 
in his own neighbourhood — and setit forth to 
the world, corroborated by the sanctity of an 
affidavit, which represented him as confessing 
to a young man on a steamboat, that he was an 
abolitionist, and that, although he voted against 
restrictions on Missouri, he did so in opposition 
to the suggestions of his conscience, &c. He 
said the narrative bore on its face the proofs of 
its absolute falsity ; and when he pronounced 
it a fabrication, without the semblance of a fact 
or a word for its basis, it was not because he 
thought it required a contradiction, but to 
evince the recklessness and desperation of his 
political enemies, who seemed to have given up 
every ground of hope, save that which they 
found ill villifying his name. " It is a melan- 
choly fact, fellow-citizens," said General Harri- 
son, "that the advocates of Mr. Van Buren 
should so far forget what belongs to the cha- 
racter of an American citizen, and do so much 
violence to the nature of our free institutions, 
as to place the great political contest in which 
we are now striving, upon an issue such as this. 
I would not accept the lofty station to which 
some of you are proposing to elevate me, if it 
came to me by such means. I would not, if I 
had the power to prevent it, allow the fair fame 
of my competitor to be unjustly assailed and 
wounded, even for the attainment of that lofty 
aim of a noble ambition. Nay, I have often 
defended Mr. Van Buren against what I be- 
lieved to be the misrepresentations of my owa 
mistaken friends and others. 

" Fellow-citizens, if Mr. Van Buren be the 
better statesman, let us say so ; I shall be the 
last man to raise an objection against it,, ar to 
desire to impose restraints upon the utmost in- 
dependence of thought and action, and the 
freest expression of feeling and opinion. I 
love a frank and generous adversary — such a 
man I delight to embrace — and will serve him, 
according to my ability, as cheerfully as my 
professed friend. But that political warfare 
which seeks success by foul detraction, and 
strives for ascendency by the ruin of personal 
character, merits the indignation of honest 
men, is hateful to every generous mind, and 
tends too surely to the destruction of public 
virtue, and, as a consequence, to the downfall 
of public liberty." 

General Harrison apologized for occupying 
his fellow-citizens so long. He said he would 
but mention one more of the latest slanders 
which had come to his knowledge. A Ger- 
man paper, published in Cincinnati, almost 
under his own eye, puts it forth with apparent 
sincerity, that "General Harrison, now a can- 
didate for the Presidency of the United States, 
was many years ago, when a young man, an 
aid to General Wayne, during his Indian wars; 
and that, when young Harrison found that a 
battle was coming on, he always ran off into 
the woods." (Again there was loud and irre- 
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the general, when he served up this little dish, 
that the only possible security to young Harri- 
son's scalp, on the approach of a battle yvith 
the Indians, was in keejiing vui of the woods ! 
Such a story as this can only excite a smile 
here, it is true, said General Harrison, but this 
paper circulates not alone in the United States, 
copies of it are probably read in Europe, where 
our history is less known, and where the con- 
tradiction of such falsehoods may possibly never 
come. 

" It has long been proverbial of old soldiers, 
fellow-citizens," (continued General Harrison,) 
" that they delight to go jsack to other days and 
fight their battles over again. When I began 
this address to you, I intended only to speak 
of my far-fiimed ' Conimiitee of conscience- 
keepers,^ and the ' Iron Cage' in which they 
confine me, but I have unwittingly taken ad- 
vantage of your kind disposition to listen to 
me, and extended my remarks to other, though 
kindred topics. I will only add, that although 
they have made a wide mistake who make me 
to dwell in an ' Iron Cage,' the unlucky wight 
who put nie into a Log Cabin was a little 
nearer the truth than he probably supposed him- 
self to be. It is true that a part of my dwell- 
ing house is a log eabin ; but as to the hard 
cider (the laughter which followed the allusion 
to the " haid cider" branch of the story, drown- 
ed the voice of the speaker.) 

" But," said General Harrison, " admonished 
by the proverb, that you may ascribe my long 
speech to the common infirmity of the old sol- 
dier, and bring me under the suspicion of the 
loquacity of age, I will conclude these hasty 
and unpremeditated remarks, by thanking my 
fellow-citizens of Columbus for their politeness 
on the present occasion, as well as for the 
friendly feelings of which they have uniformly 
aixl often heretofore given me so many gratify- 
ing proofs." 

The general retired, leaving the crowd, 
which had continued to accumulate while he 
spoke, delighted with the prompt and satisfac- 
tory manner in which he had met the wishes 
of the citizens. The uppermost idea in the 
mind of every one with whom the writer in- 
terchanged a thought, was the wish that every 
man in the Union had heard that unpremedi- 
tated and extemporaneous address. Upon 
every candid mind it impressed the conviction, 
that the opposition candidate for the Presi- 
dency was the last man in the world to be 
made the instrument of a committee of " Con- 
science-keepers," or to conceal his opinions of 
public measures from smister motives, when 
the disclosure of them was called for bj the 
propriety and fitness of things. 

It will be recollected, that the remarfes of 
General Harrison are reported by the Editor 
of the Confederate, entirely from memory, and 
therefore, the language is not the General's, 
and possibly, there may be some slight varia- 
tion from the sentiments he expressed., ^ 



LETTER OF HON. JOHN RUGGLES. 

Among the number of those whose pre- 
sence at the Baltimore convention, vi'as solicited 
by the Committee of Invitation, a letter was 
addressed to the Hon. John Ruggles, United 
States senator from Maine, who has heretofore 
been friendly to the administration. We pub- 
lish below the letter of the committee, as well 
as the reply of Mr. Ruggles. 

^^ Baltimore, April 15, 1840. 
To the Hon. John Ruggles, 

U. S. Senate. 
Deak Sir, — The undersigned, acting on be- 
half and under the direction of the delegates 
from the city of Baltimore, to the National 
Convention of Whig Young Men, have the 
honour to request that you will attend the sit- 
tings of the convention as one of its guests. 
That convention, it is now certain, will be, by 
far the most numerous national assemblage of 
the delegates of the people, that has ever taken 
place in the United States, and we earnestly 
wish that it may not only be worthy of being 
remembered for its multitude, but for its deeds 
and the counsels it will offer to the nation. To 
this end, we desire that its deliberations may be 
aided, as well as witnessed by the sages of the 
republic, and particularly by those who have 
been the champions of the faith, which its 
members profess and are seeking to establish in 
triumph. Allow to us, sir, the honour and the 
pleasure of welcoming you to.our city on this 
occasion, and believe us to be, with the truest 
regard, Your obedient servants, 

Neilson Poe, Robert Lawson, Jr. 

RoBEiiT Butler, .Iames W. Barroll, 

EnwAitD De I/OUGhery,.Ii>hn W. Kirp, 
Wm. M. Pethcrbbidge,C. Hughes Ahmistead, 
Thomas Smanley, Wm. P. Stewart. 

Thomas W. Jay. A. L. McLean." 

MR. RUGGLES' REPLY. 

" Washington City, May "id, 1840. 

Gentlf.mex : — I have received the invitation 
to ' attend the sittings of the National Con- 
vention of the Whig Young Men, as one of 
its guests,' with which you have honoured me, 
' in behalf of the delegates from the city of Bal- 
timore.' It would afford me great satisfaction 
to be present on that interesting occasion, would 
my public duties permit. 

The necessity of a change of measures with 
a view to the relief of a people suffering beyond 
any former example, is now manifest to all, if 
not acknowledged by all. No small portion 
of those who aided in bringing into power the 
present incumbent of the executive chair, have 
witnessed with painful disappointment the per- 
tinacity with which he has persevered in forcing 
upon the country a system of measures destruc- 
tive of its best interests and ruinous to the en- 
terprise and business of the people. And they 
have resolved, as the only means left of staying 
the progress of those measures, to aid in call- 
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■whose enlightened patriotism, great practical 
wisdom, and sound republican principles have 
secured for him the highest respect and confi- 
dence. The name of Harrison has animated 
the whole country with hope. 

It has roused an enthusiasm which pervades 
all classes of the people. That enthusiasm, 
chastened by wise counsels and hallowed by 
patriotism, will be the animating pruiciples of 
the ' National Convention.' 

Reflecting, as its members will, the princi- 
ples and feelings of the great majority of the 
people throughout the Union, their dehbera- 
tions will be no less national in their character 
than patriotic in their design ; and will tend, it 
is confidently believed, to harmonize and invi- 
gorate the efforts of the nation to place the 
executive government in the hands of one who 
has never yet disappointed the expectations of 
his country. He who, by his bravery in the 
field, redeemed the honour of the nation, when 
betrayed by treachery and cowardice, will not 
fail to correct by his wisdom and prudence the 
errors of the civil administration of the govern- 
ment under which the country is severely suf- 
fering. 

Thanking ' the delegates from the city of 
Baltimore' for their gratifying invitation, and 
you, gentleman, for the acceptable terms in which 
it is conveyed, I have the honour to be, with 
sincere regard, 

Your obedient servant, 

JOHJT RuGGLES. 

To Neilson Poe, Esq. and others." 



HEAR AN OPPONENT. 

Gent.hal Harrison. — The abuse which 
some of the ultra-political journals have lavish- 
ed upon the ' Hero of the Thames,' is already 
beginning to react. The same policy was pur- 
sued by some of the indiscreet of our friends 
in the case of General Jackson, and always did 
much more harm than good. It is known that 
General Harrison has devoted a great part of 
his life to the service of his country, that he 
has occupied various distinguished stations, 
and always discharged their duties with fidelity 
and ability, and that his fame is in a great mea- 
sure identified widi our national reputation. 
Under these circumstances, the calumnies heap- 
ed upon him by the Globe and a number of 
other mendacious and profligate prints, are cal- 
culated, rot only to excite feelings of indigna- 
tion in the minds of his political friends, but 
also to produce censure and regret ^om his 
political foes. A case in point may be cited in 
the Berwick Sentinel, the Van Buren organ in 
Columbia county, Pa, In a recent number of 
that paper, the editor, announcing his determina- 
tion to sustain Mr. Van Buren for the presiden- 
cy, says, he " will yield General Harrison a fair 
and honourable opposition," and adds : 

" To traduce and slander the character, as 
is too often attempted, of a great and good 
man, such as Gen. Wm. H. Harrison, who it 



is not to be denied. Inn rendered eminent ser- 
vices in the 'field of bailie' and the councik 
of the nation, is not onhj uniourtenus and 
disgraceful, but is an open insult to the good, 
sense of I hut portion of the American people 
who have named him as their candidufc. If 
we cannot defeat his election ivifhout resort to 
such means, we hope ive never shall with their 
aid. Therefore whilst we control the super- 
vision and editorial conduct of this journal, no 
such means of j)olitical warfare shall ever find 
place in its columns." 

NOMINATIONS BY THE NATIONAL 
CONVENTION. 

Letter from the Committee to Gc^neral Harrison. 
" Harrisburg, 1th Dec., 1839. 
To Gen, W. H. Harrison." 

Sir : — The undersigned, a committee ap- 
pointed by the National Democratic Whig 
Convention, assembled at Harrisburg to nomi- 
nate candidates for the offices of president and 
vice-president of the United States, have the 
honour to inform you that, by a resolution of 
that body, passed unanimously this day, you 
were nominated a candidate for the presidency, 
and the Hon. John Tyler, of Virginia, a can- 
didate for the vice-presidency of the United 
States. 

The undersigned have the honour to be, with 
the highest respect, your obedient servants, 

John Owkn, of N. C. Chairman. 

Elisha W.Allen of Me. 

James Wilson of N. 11. 

Isaac C. Bates of Mass. 

James F. Simmons of R. I. 

William Henkv of Vt. 

Charles Uavies of Conn. 

KoBERT C. Nicholas of N. Y. 

Ephraim Marsh of N. J. 

Richard Mansfield of Del. 

J. Andrew Shultzb, of Penn. 

Revebdv Johnson of Md. 

James W. Pec.ram of Va. 

Thomas Metcalf of Ky. 

Jacob Burnett of O. 

DiiUGLAss McGuire of la. 

G. Mason Graham of La. 

T. C. TUPPER of Miss. 

William H. Russel of Mo. 

Geo. W. Ralph of 111. 

Geo. C. Bates of Mich. 

H. W. UlLLIARD of Ala." 

GENERAL HARRISON'S REPLY. 

''North Bend, 19 th Dec, 1839. 

Gentlemen : — I have the honour to acknow- 
ledge the receipt of your letter from Harris- 
burg, of the 7th inst. 

However objectionable in the opinions of 
many of our fellow-citizens may be the mode 
of selecting a candidate for the two highest 
offices of the government by a general conven- 
tion, the peculiar circumstances in which the 
party opposed to the present administration 
were placed, seem to have left them no alterna- 
tive to secure that unity of action so necessary 
to their success. The number of states repre- 
sented, and the exalted characters of the dele- 
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a candidate was committed, leaving no room to 
doubt that their decision was in accordance 
with the wishes of the majority of their con- 
stituents, I accept with gratitude the nomination 
which, in obedience to a resolution of the con- 
vention, you have done me, gentlemen, the 
honour to communicate. 

But however high I may value this evidence 
of the attachment and confidence of so large a 
portion of my fellow-citizens, I must beg you 
to believe, gentlemen, that no one is more 
thoroughly convinced than I am, that in select- 
ing a retired and unpretending individual to be 
their candidate, the convention were influenced 
by circumstances often occurring in popular 
governments to set aside the higher claims of 
other citizens, although founded upon the pos- 
session of the most distinguished talents and 
the performance of the most eminent services 
to their country, united to every other quality 
necessary to the discharge of the duties of 
chief magistrate of this great republic. 

It may perhaps be expected that I should 
embrace this occasion to declare the principles 
upon which the administration will be conduct- 
ed, if the efforts of my friends to place me in 
the presidential chair should prove successful. 
But having, in a letter to the Hon. Harmer 
Denny, and in another to the Hon. Sherrod 
Williams, both of which have been made pub- 
lic, given my views at some length of the cha- 
racter and extent of the powers vested by the 
constitution in the president, I consider it un- 
necessary to repeat them here. 

I deem it, however, gentlemen, proper at this 
time to renew the assurance heretofore fre- 
quently made, that should I be elected to the 
presidency, I will under no circumstances con- 
sent to be a candidate for a second term. 

With the highest consideration, gentlemen, 
for yourselves and those you represent, 
I am your fellow-citizen, 

W. H. Harrisok. 
To the Hon. John Owen and the others 
of the Committee." 

GOVERNOR TYLER'S REPLY TO THE 
SAME COMMITTEE. 

"WilUumshurg, {Va.) Dec. 16th, 1839. 
Gentlemen: — The nomination which, as 
the organs of the late Harrisburg convention, 
you have communicated to me, is accepted with 
a sensibility greatly augmented by the fact, that 
whilst it is a result in no way contemplated by 
me, it was attended by the unanimous concur- 
rence of that enlightened and patriotic body. 
To have my name associated with that of the 
eminent Patriot who is put in nomination 
for the first office, is of itself regarded by me 
as no ordinary honour. His long and faithful 
services to the country, at the council-board 
and in the field, have won for him a distin- 
guished name in history, and furnish the surest 
guarantee that should he be elevated by the 
popular voice to the chief executive office, his 



administration of governmental affairs will be 
just, and prudent, and wi^e. With the Con- 
stitution for his guide, and the good of his 
country his only aim, I doubt not but that his 
exertions would be exclusively directed to up- 
hold the one, and to advance the other. The 
friend and supporter of Jefferson, of Mabi- 
soN and Monroe, and the immediate descend- 
ant of a signer of the declaration of independ- 
ence, can be none other than true to his early 
republican creed, and the devoted advocate of 
free principles and of popular rights. 
I have the honour to be, gentlemen. 
Your obedient servant, John Ttleb. 
To John Owen, Esq. and others of the 
Committee." 



WHAT HAS HE DONE 1 

When any candidate for preferment was pre- 
sented to Napoleon, the first question asked by 
the emperor was, Qu'a't'il fait"! What has he 
done 1 The principle, " by their fruit ye shall 
know them" is not more a precept of Scrip- 
ture, than a safe maxim of worldly policy ; nor 
is its application in any case more proper than 
when a candidate for popular favour presents 
himself to the nation, and claims the highest 
office in their gift. Let us for a moment ap 
ply the principle to Mr. Van Buren. Let us 
asli the question, and read its answer from the 
records of history. What has he done 1 

He has increased the annual expenses of tha 
government from ;§ 13,000,000 ! 

He has spent all the ordinary revenues of 
the people, though out of those ordinary reve- 
nues, his three immediate predecessors paid off 
$120,000,000 of the national debt: 

He has spent, in addition thereto, the follow- 
ing sums, which belonged to the people, and 
which, under a righteous government, would 
have been distributed among the people, to 
wit: 
In the treasury when he came into 

olfice, $6,670,000 

Withheld from the states, the 4th 

instalment, 9,367,000 

Paid to the government by tho Bank 

of the United States, for stock of 

the United States 6,000,000 

Received on merchants' bonds, due 

in '35 and '36, but postponed to 

'38 and '39 7,000,000 



Making an aggregate of $29,037,000 

He lias, in addition to those enormous ex- 
penditures, run the people in debt, by the issue 
of treasury notes to the amount of $15,000,000, 
whereof $7,750,000 are still due. 

He has been instrumental in creating more 
banks than any other man in the nation, and 
yet he is now engaged in a fierce crusade, not 
against banks only, but against the credit sys- 
tem of the country. 

He has brought forward the sub-treasury 
and recommended its adoption by the example 



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of the hard money despotisms of Europe; and, 
though that measure has been three limes re- 
jeded hy the people, he is now upon the eve of 
forcing it l)y parly discipline through Congress ! 

He has, in violation of cstabhshed prece- 
dents, and every principle of justice, deprived 
a sovereign state of her representation in the 
national councils! 

He has, through his friends in the senate, 
■advocated a reduction of the wages of labour, 
and the price of produce, as one of the best 
results of the suh-treasury scheme, and as the 
strongest argument in its favour. 

He has, through John C. Calhoun, intro- 
duced a bill to deprive the old slates of their 
rights in the public domain, though those 
rights are expressly reserved in their several 
deeds of cession, and it is not within the consti- 
tutional powers of Congress to take them away. 

He has h)st more public money by the de- 
falcatio7is of his agents in three years than 
any previous president had done in eight. 

He hus, through Mr. Grundy's report, en- 
deavoured to blast the credit of independent 
communities, by falsely insinuating to this na- 
tion and to the world, that the American states 
had petitioned the general government to as- 
sume their debts. 

He has strongly recommended the adoption 
of a military system, which raises and places 
at his exclusive disposal, an effective standing 
army of one -hundred thousand men, with a 
reserve of one hundred thousand more / 

He has practised the most shameless corrup- 
tion in every department of his government; 
appointed men to, and removed them from 
office, solely in reference to their political senti- 
ments; continued known defaulters in office; 
prostituted the honour, the interests, and the 
dignity of the nation to party purposes ; and, 
in fine, proved that, in some men, the virtues 
are like garments to be put on and off at plea- 
sure, while intrigue and corruption constitute 
the body of their political character. 

Amid the disastrous influences of this malign 
administration, it may be some consolation to 
reflect that his example has inculcated at least 
one truth, important for every people to know, 
to wit : that high station does not secure man 
fn)m low arts ; that it is possible to possess all 
the sublety of a serpent, without any of its 
wisdom — all the apparent simplicity of a dove, 
without any of its innocence — to be a Demo- 
crat in nothing but profession, and a Federalist 
in everything b\xi name. — Geneva Courier. 

AN OASIS IN THE DESERT. 

We delight to record evidences nf patriotic liberality 
on tlie part of our political foes, the journal in ques- 
tion lias too much regard for truth to lie for the pre- 
sent adiiiinistration. 

The Philadelphia American Sentinel, an ad- 
ministration print, alludes to the great Harrison 
convention at Baltimore, and says: 

" History mentions no such gatliering of 
people sijice that in the Cjicgnp do Mars to swear 



to the constitution. Whether we speak of the 
numbers present, their boundless enthusiasm, 
or the vast territory trom the most distant points 
of which they assembled, we may, as chroniclers 
of passing events, mention it as a surpassing 
pageant, and a thrilling demonstration of the 
intensity of that feeling which animates the 
supporters of General Harrison." 

A CORRUPT cause can only be sustained by corrupt 
means. — "/"u irliat base vses have I come at last?" 
might Guvcrnor Vroom emphatically exclaim. 

This individual is, as our readers will re- 
member, one of the usurping Van Buren mem- 
bers of Congress from New Jersey. He has 
lately brought himself into a position which 
has disgraced him forever in the eyes of all 
honest men. During the recent examii«ition 
of testimony in New Jersey, he sat hy and 
listened to testimony given in favour of him- 
self, which he knew to be false. The Jersey- 
man, a neutral paper, thus speaks of the trans- 
action : — 

How Governor Vroom could sit in his seat 
on the floor of Congress and hear so vile a 
charge against Governor Pennington without 
refuting it, when he had been previously in- 
formed of Ellis' iiiistake by Secretary West- 
cott, is beyond our comprehension. We have 
hitherto considered him a man of strict veracity 
and unimpeachable character, but this transac- 
tion shakes our faith in him, for he, the presi- 
dent of the Bible Society, has sat by and heard 
an innocent man charged with corruption 
whilst he well knew it to be false. But proba- 
bly Governor Vroom thought his seat in Con- 
gress depended upon Ellis' affidavit, and that 
was of more consequence than a clear and 
quiet conscience, and we leave him and his 
adherents in that belief. 



Republicans! read the following beautiful extract, 
and then ask yourselves the question whether the 
gross dt'moralization, unblushing falsehood, the unpu- 
nished frauds and embezzlements of the present cor- 
rupt administration of the national government, have 
not brought the liberties, for which our fathers toiled 
and bled, to the very verge of a frightful precipice ■? 

VIRTUE THE FOUNDATION OF OUR 
LIBERTIES. 

So long, then, as our people remain virtuous 
and intelligent, our government will remain 
stable. While they clearly perceive, and ho- 
nestly decree justice, our laws will be whole- 
some, and the principles of our constitution 
commend themselves everywhere to the com- 
mon sense of man. But should our people 
become ignorant and vicious ; should their 
decisions become the dictates of passion and 
renalty, rather than of reason and of right, that 
moment are our hberties at an end; and, glad 
to escape from the despotism of millions, we 
shall flee for shelter to the despotism of one. 
Then will the world's last hope be extinguish- 
ed, and darkness brood for ages over the wholo 
human race. — Wat/land. 




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